Former IMF chief files $1m countersuit against New York hotel maid

PanARMENIAN.Net - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the New York hotel maid at the center of last year's explosive sexual assault allegations, according to a report in the New York Post.

On the first anniversary of his blockbuster arrest, Strauss-Kahn accused Nafissatou Diallo of “knowingly and intentionally making a false report to law-enforcement authorities” that cost him his job as head of the International Monetary Fund.

He also says the “malicious and wanton false allegation” damaged his worldwide reputation and caused him to lose “other professional opportunities.”

Although the Bronx Supreme Court filing doesn’t specify those job prospects, the disgraced economist admits elsewhere in court papers “that he ‘was considered by some to become the next president of France.’ ”

Strauss-Kahn admits that he and Diallo “engaged in mutually consensual sexual acts” in his luxury suite at the Midtown Sofitel hotel.

But after Diallo “falsely reported that she had been sexually assaulted,” DSK says he was arrested and “subjected to a degrading and humiliating strip search; photographed naked; and forced to provide penal (sic) swabs as part of a forensic examination.”

“Mr. Strauss-Kahn also was paraded in front of international media in handcuffs as part of a ‘perp walk’ intended to humiliate him, even though he committed no crime,” his countersuit says.

The criminal case against DSK eventually collapsed after investigators caught Diallo in a number of lies, including the claim that she had been gang-raped in her native Guinea, which court papers say had “moved veteran law-enforcement official (sic) to tears.”

The court filing came two weeks after he lost a bid to toss Diallo’s pending civil suit against him.