The former executive director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been granted bail by a court in New York to be released from prison on $XNUMX million bail and to defend himself against charges of attempted rape from house arrest.
Strauss-Kahn was arrested on Saturday, May 14, in New York, as a result of which he resigned from the post of IMF Executive Director.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus said Strauss-Kahn will be released on $24 million bail and placed under XNUMX-hour house arrest, with electronic monitoring, as suggested by his lawyers.
Strauss-Kahn must have one armed guard, whom he will pay himself, and guarantee with five million dollars that he will not leave the United States. His wife Ann Sinclair and daughter Camille Strauss-Kahn were in the courtroom.
Having been denied bail on Monday to defend himself, Strauss-Kahn has spent the last three nights in a detention unit on Ryker Island. He will have to spend one more night there, however, since all the formalities can be completed on Friday.
Judge Obus set the next hearing for June 6, when Strauss-Kahn will officially plead to the charges.
Judge Obus set the next hearing on June 6
According to his lawyer, he denies the charges of criminal sexual act, rape, sexual assault, unlawful restraint and forcible touching, which carry a prison sentence of up to 25 years.
Strauss-Kahn was arrested on Saturday, May 14, at the New York airport, after being taken off the plane to Paris, 10 minutes before takeoff. He is accused of sexually assaulting a maid at the Sofitel hotel, not far from Times Square.
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