A judicial investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor on March 7 including organized fraud, misappropriation of corporate assets and abuse of trust, said Thursday AFP judicial source. “ Investigators are interested in operating LSK from 2007 and not only to the period in which Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the head of the Board ” (September 2013-October 2014) , the source said. Asked the lawyer of the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Jean Veil, declined to comment.
Many complaints
Dominique Strauss Kahn is targeted by several complaints filed by former shareholders who feel they presented them at the time of investment, LSK financial situation (Leyne Strauss-Kahn & amp; Partners). not consistent with reality
Jean-François Ott, former CEO of Orco property group, says “ have lost 500 000 ” placed in July 2014 the group, through its Cypriot society Roxannia. Alain Urbach, a retired engineer, and his wife had, themselves, invested a month later “ 1.14 million euros, their entire savings .” A third complaint was filed by a Macedonian businessman who has purchased LSK obligations. A preliminary investigation was opened in July by the Paris prosecutor.
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LSK, including Dominique Strauss-Kahn wanted to make a hedge fund of $ 2 billion, was declared bankrupt in November 2014, a few weeks after the suicide in Tel Aviv of its founder and leader, Thierry Leyne. DSK had left the presidency of the company a few days before his death. The fund had left a liability of almost € 100 million to the detriment of 150 creditors, including the Luxembourg tax authorities, according to a source close to the investigation.
DSK denies its operational role
the offenses may have been committed abroad including Luxembourg, Israel and Switzerland, but “ the high court of Paris is competent: LSK was listed on the Paris Stock Exchange and of the directors may be implicated are resident in France , “notes a source close to the case.
It remains to determine whether the former IMF chief has had an operational role in the investment fund, which he denies. of the board meetings only left “ no show through serious difficulties ” and “ the daily management was mainly by Thierry Leyne ,” wrote the former Minister in mail to the Luxembourg justice in November 2014, of which AFP has learned.
for the complainants, DSK “ could not ignore ” the situation of the society, insolvent since May 7, 2014, under Luxembourg law. “ When Urbach couple was in response to requests from LSK, the directors of the company and president knew their merchant bank was bankrupt ,” said their lawyer, Yohan Attal. “ were provided to my client at the time of accounting documents showing that it was contrary flourishing. The scam seems characterized “Mathieu Croizet judge, lawyer Jean-Francois Ott.
After the New York Sofitel affair, ended in abandonment of criminal prosecutions, and transaction financial with the maid accusing him of rape in May 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was cleared in June of aggravated pimping charges at trial in Lille Carlton affair known.
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