Disgraced former world-banking chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn played an “actual and crucial role” in a multinational prostitution network, according to a panel of French judges.
Not only was the former banking bigwig aware that women with whom he had sex at orgies were hired prostitutes, but he was allegedly the “instigator” of the vice ring.
It was revealed yesterday that a French court last month rejected Strauss-Kahn’s request to drop the inquiry into the alleged vice ring.
In the ruling, parts of which were published in the French newspaper Le Figaro, the judges cited Straus-Kahn’s “effective and crucial participation in acts of pimping.”
Strauss-Kahn, 64, faces up to 20 years in prison on the charges.
The ruling is the latest in a string of Strauss-Kahn sex scandals since his 2011 arrest for allegedly attempting to rape a maid in Manhattan. That charge was eventually dropped.