Christine Lagarde
Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), France's Christine Lagarde speaks to the press as she leaves the French Republic Justice Court on May 24, 2013 in Paris, for a second day of a hearing to decide if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister. Lagarde was designated as an 'assisted witness' in the French payout scandal, she said when speaking to the press.
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IMF chief avoids French criminal charges
officials in France have decided not to press criminal charges against International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde for alleged misuse of public money as French finance minister in 2008. Lagarde, 57, was allowed to leave the French Court of the Republic 31 m ago from Adelaide Now Read more »
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IMF head Lagarde named "assisted witness" in Tapie probe
May 24 (Xinhua) -- International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde on Friday is named as "assisted witness" in a probe into an alleged corruption relating to a controversial arbitration of the Tapie case after a two-day hearing at a French court 47 m ago from SINA English Read more »
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IMF chief avoids charges in French payout scandal
from the payout if one deducted the taxes he paid and what he owed his creditors. "About the sum, I can affirm... that Christine Lagarde had saved the state several billion euros by opting for arbitrage," he told Le Parisien newspaper. Lagarde has said the 5:49 PM from Bangkok Post Read more »
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde to be witness, not suspect, in French arbitration case
— Christine Lagarde, director general of the International Monetary Fund, wound up more than 25 hours of interrogation Friday night without any accusation being leveled against her for a contested decision to accept arbitration in a multimillion-dollar business 5:48 PM from The Washington Post Read more »
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
allowed to live Jodi Arias tells jury she can contribute from prison if she's allowed to live PARIS (AP) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde says a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman 5:00 PM from San Diego Local News 1 Read more »
