Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn takes job as bank boss


  • World
  • Wednesday, 25 Sep 2013

Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) and Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic attend a news conference in the Serbian government building in Belgrade September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

PARIS (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been named head of an investment firm, marking another step in the business comeback of a man whose career and French presidential hopes were ruined by a sex scandal.

The 64-year-old economist who fronted International Monetary Fund rescues of debt-crushed countries in his time at the helm, was forced to quit the Washington-based public lender in 2011 after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault.

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