Strauss-Kahn acquitted in French vice trial


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  • Friday, 12 Jun 2015

Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn holds keys and a tie as he walks towards his apartment in Paris, France, June 12, 2015. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

LILLE, France (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted of sex crime accusations by a French court on Friday, the final chapter in a transatlantic scandal that destroyed the political ambitions of a man once tipped to become his country's president.

A court in the northern city of Lille dismissed charges that the former International Monetary Fund chief's sexual escapades with prostitutes amounted to "aggravated pimping" -- the charge on which French magistrates sent him to trial.

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