international Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has offered to resign following an alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid in New York.

In a statement, Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, said he had already informed the executive board of his intention to step down “with immediate effect”.

He again firmly denied the criminal charges against him.

Mr Strauss-Kahn – who is being held in New York’s Rikers Island prison – is expected to make a new plea for bail.

In the statement, Mr Strauss-Kahn said: “It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of Managing Director of the IMF.

“I think at this time first of my wife – whom I love more than anything – of my children, of my family, of my friends. I think also of my colleagues at the Fund; together we have accomplished such great things over the last three years and more.

“To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me.

“I want to protect this institution which I have served with honour and devotion, and especially – especially – I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence.”

The IMF said it would inform “in the near future” on the selection process of a new chief.

Currently the organisation is being run by John Lipsky.

Mutabaruka locks thief in car

A man who shoved popular dub poet and radio personality Mutabaruka to the ground after breaking into his car, was today sentenced to nine months imprisonment when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

Pete Duncan, a 19-year-old unemployed man from Temple Hall in St Andrew broke into the complainant’s car in search of a cellular phone, which he claimed Mutabaruka had stolen from him.

 

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Duncan was deemed fit to plead by a doctor after he was remanded for psychiatric evaluation. Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey found him guilty on charges of malicious destruction of property, assault occasioning bodily harm and attempting to steal, for which he had previously pleaded guilty. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Police report that Mutabaruka’s wife parked the vehicle in their yard and left the car doors unlocked.

Shortly after she heard strange sounds coming from inside the car and alerted her husband who went to check and saw Duncan inside the car.

The complainant asked Duncan what he was doing in the car and Duncan replied, “You a demon cause you thief me phone and a gwaan like a nuh you thief it.”

Duncan then came out of the car and pushed the dub poet to the ground and jumped back inside the car. However, Mutabaruka managed to secure the doors, locked Duncan inside the car and summoned the police who took him into custody

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Maid set to testify against IMF chief
Sebastian Smith
May 19, 2011 – 2:24AM
AFP

The maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault will testify against him, rejecting any notion that she consented to sex in a New York hotel, her lawyer said.

“There is nothing consensual about what took place in that hotel room,” lawyer Jeff Shapiro told NBC television.

“I think that when the jury hears her testimony and sees her in person, and finally she can come public with this and tell her story, I think that (they will find) their claims of consensual sex or encounters are not true.”

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The 32-year-old woman, a single mother, who Shapiro says is living through an extraordinary “trauma,” alleges Strauss-Kahn groped and mauled her in his hotel suite, and forcibly tried to have oral sex.

One of the world’s most powerful men, Strauss-Kahn has denied seven counts of alleged sexual assault and attempted rape, as well as unlawful imprisonment.

He was arrested in the wake of Saturday’s alleged assault in the luxury Sofitel hotel, after being escorted from an Air France flight just minutes before take-off from John F Kennedy airport.

A judge on Monday refused him bail deeming him a flight risk, and Strauss-Kahn, who is under suicide watch in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail, faces a long prison sentence if convicted.

But his lawyers insist he did not try to flee the country as alleged, and that he went out to lunch immediately after the alleged assault.

Lawyer Benjamin Brafman told Monday’s hearing the evidence “will not be consistent with a forcible encounter,” and according to New York Post tabloid a “source close to the defence” said “there may well have been consent.”

Prosecutors also say they have physical evidence, including a doctor’s examination of the 32-year-old victim, taken immediately after the incident which indicates attempted rape.

The scandal has thrown the French political scene into disarray, as Strauss-Kahn had been seen as a strong contender to defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s elections.

It also comes at a critical time for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is steering delicate negotiations to help overcome the eurozone debt crisis.

Photographed handcuffed leaving a police cell, and humiliated as he slumped on a court bench along with petty criminals and down-and-outs, the 62-year-old IMF boss is under growing pressure to quit.

A grand jury is due to convene in the coming days to decide whether there is enough evidence in the accusations to proceed to trial.

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