The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominik Strauss-Kahn, said today that his involvement in politics is "in the past" and that he wants to devote himself to a new calling as an adviser to governments and companies.
"Politics is a thing of the past for me," Strauss-Kahn said in an interview with Rasija 24 television and Itar-Tas agency, where he answered questions about his arrest in New York in 2011 in connection with a sex scandal and his presidential ambitions at the time.
Media in Serbia reported yesterday that the country's government is in negotiations with Strauss-Kahn to be its adviser, but sources around him denied this.
Strauss-Kahn said that today he works as an advisor to governments and large companies in many countries and in all corners of the world, in Russia, Africa, Latin America.
"I try my best to fulfill my role and give the best possible advice," said Dominik Strauss-Kahn.
He was appointed in July as a member of the supervisory board of two financial institutions that are majority owned by Russia - the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Russian Regional Development Bank (BRDR), which is controlled by the oil company Rosneft.
Media in Serbia reported yesterday that the country's government is in negotiations with Strauss-Kahn to be its adviser, but sources around him denied this.
Strauss-Kahn, who was a potential socialist candidate for the president of France, resigned as head of the IMF in 2011 after a maid in a New York hotel accused him of attempted rape. He was later acquitted of those charges.
French prosecutors announced a few days ago that Strauss-Kahn will be brought to court on charges of pimping, for his involvement in an alleged prostitution ring at a hotel in Lille.
Strauss-Kahn admitted to attending sex parties, but said he did not know that some of the women at the parties were paid prostitutes.
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