"Strauss-Kahn quit his International Monetary Fund post after the New York sex assault case broke, although criminal charges were later dropped. Linked later to the Lille affair, Strauss-Kahn said that he wanted to talk to police over the case. The probe is focused on a prostitution ring that allegedly supplied clients of Lille's luxury Carlton hotel. Police want to establish whether Strauss-Kahn knew that women at sex parties he attended in Paris and Washington were prostitutes. Eight people, including two Lille businessmen close to Strauss-Kahn and a police commissioner, have been arrested in the case, and construction firm Eiffage fired an executive suspected of using company funds to hire sex workers. Using prostitutes is not illegal in France, but Strauss-Kahn risks being charged if investigators decide he knew the women at the sex parties were prostitutes or that company funds were used to pay them. Strauss-Kahn's lawyer Henri Leclerc has said his client had no reason to think the women at sex parties he attended were prostitutes. Attempted-rape accusations brought against Strauss-Kahn last year by a Parisian writer were shelved by police in October. The New York maid is pursuing him in a civil action."
http://news.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/dominique-strauss-kahn-held-in-prostitution-ring-probe.php?ref=fpb
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