The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (in picture) could see the sexual assault charges against him dismissed on Tuesday by the New York prosecutors, who have alleged that the accuser “has not been truthful on matters great and small”. International media commented that the dismissal could help Strauss-Kahn run as the Socialist party’s candidate for France's presidential seat.

Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May on allegations that he attacked Nafissatou Diallo, a chambermaid at the Manhattan Sofitel, where he was a guest. This had forced him to resign from the helm of the IMF and was replaced at the end of June by Christine Lagarde, France's Finance Minister.

Before his arrest, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was considered the strongest challenger to French president Nicholas Sarkozy and was even ahead of the current French president in opinion polls, although he had never declared his intention to run for the presidential seat.

More on it in the Financial Times.

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(photo source: The World Bank)