Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned today by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring.
Mr. Strauss Kahn arrived at the police station in the Northern City of Lille. Police are probing a suspected prostitution ring in France and neighbouring Belgium that has implicated police and other officials. They had questioned commercial sex workers who said they had sex with Strauss Kahn during the year 2010 and 2011 at an luxury hotel in Paris, a restaurant in French capital and also in Washington D.C.
Two men with ties to Strauss Kahn have been put to preliminary investigation in France and charges including organising a prostitution ring and misuse of corporate funds.
Investigators are seeking to discover if sex workers were paid using corporate funds from a large French construction company.
It is Mr. Strauss Kahn latest run -in with the police over alleged sexual misconduct.
Mr.Strauss Kahn was charged by New York police in May with making a hotel maid perform oral sex.
New York prosecutors dropped the case against him in August because the woman had undercut her credibility by lying about her background and changing her account of her actions right after the alleged attack. She says she was truthful about the encounter and is persuing her claims in a lawsuit.
The Paris prosecutor's office dropped the investigation into writer's claim that Mr. Strauss Kahn tried to rape her during a 2003 interview for a book she was writing, saying they could'nt send him to trial because it happened too long ago.
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