Ex-imf Chief

Former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato was handed a jail sentence of four years and six months Thursday for misusing funds when he was the boss of two Spanish banks.

Spanish tax authorities carried out new searches on Friday of former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato's Madrid offices in a money-laundering probe as the country questioned whether he had been made a scapegoat in the ruling Popular Party's anti-corruption drive.

Ex-IMF head Rodrigo Rato denied Friday that bailed-out Spanish lender Bankia misrepresented its accounts ahead of its doomed 2011 stock listing while he was chairman of the bank.

Amidst thunderous applause, the 51-year-old ex-IMF chief economist, who studied at IIM-Ahmedabad in late 1980s, also enumerated some other events that have shaped his immensely successful life. One of them was joining a PhD programme at the prestigious MIT in US.

France's public prosecution service said on Tuesday it was shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man once tipped to become President of France, had engaged in group rape.

Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career.

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday rejected Dominique Strauss-Kahn's claims that he was the cause of the sex scandal that thwarted the ex-IMF chief's bid for the French presidency.

Evidence from the work clothes of a hotel housekeeper matched DNA samples taken from Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund who has been charged with sexually assaulting her, a person briefed on the matter said Monday. The test results were consistent with what law enforcement officials have said abo...

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife has put her mansion in the US on the block to raise US dollars six million as bail bond to get her husband, facing sexual assault charges, released from New York's Rikers Island prison, a media report said.The 62-year-old French politician's bail was set at US dollars one million in cash and ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, must find another place to stay when he leaves his Rikers Island jail cell because the Upper East Side building where his wife had rented an apartment will not accept him, a court official said on Friday.Instead, Mr. Strauss-Kahn will be staying at a corporate-...

A judge has agreed to free former International Monetary Fund (IMF) leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition that he remains under house arrest.The judge set bail at $1 million, and approved an elaborate arrangement under which the 62-year-old diplomat and banker would be confined to a private apartment in Manhattan ...

Former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato was handed a jail sentence of four years and six months Thursday for misusing funds when he was the boss of two Spanish banks.

Spanish tax authorities carried out new searches on Friday of former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato's Madrid offices in a money-laundering probe as the country questioned whether he had been made a scapegoat in the ruling Popular Party's anti-corruption drive.

Ex-IMF head Rodrigo Rato denied Friday that bailed-out Spanish lender Bankia misrepresented its accounts ahead of its doomed 2011 stock listing while he was chairman of the bank.

Amidst thunderous applause, the 51-year-old ex-IMF chief economist, who studied at IIM-Ahmedabad in late 1980s, also enumerated some other events that have shaped his immensely successful life. One of them was joining a PhD programme at the prestigious MIT in US.

France's public prosecution service said on Tuesday it was shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man once tipped to become President of France, had engaged in group rape.

Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career.

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday rejected Dominique Strauss-Kahn's claims that he was the cause of the sex scandal that thwarted the ex-IMF chief's bid for the French presidency.

Evidence from the work clothes of a hotel housekeeper matched DNA samples taken from Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund who has been charged with sexually assaulting her, a person briefed on the matter said Monday. The test results were consistent with what law enforcement officials have said abo...

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife has put her mansion in the US on the block to raise US dollars six million as bail bond to get her husband, facing sexual assault charges, released from New York's Rikers Island prison, a media report said.The 62-year-old French politician's bail was set at US dollars one million in cash and ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, must find another place to stay when he leaves his Rikers Island jail cell because the Upper East Side building where his wife had rented an apartment will not accept him, a court official said on Friday.Instead, Mr. Strauss-Kahn will be staying at a corporate-...

A judge has agreed to free former International Monetary Fund (IMF) leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition that he remains under house arrest.The judge set bail at $1 million, and approved an elaborate arrangement under which the 62-year-old diplomat and banker would be confined to a private apartment in Manhattan ...