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Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives by car at a police station in Lille today AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Police question Dominique Strauss Kahn over prostitution ring

The former head of the IMF had requested that he be allowed to give his side of the story to police.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS KAHN is being questioned by police in France this morning as part of an investigation into an alleged prostitution ring.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund had requested that he be allowed give his side of the story to police.

Police in the northern French city of Lille are investigating whether female prostitutes were supplied to luxury hotels in France and Belgium in a case which has already implicated police and other local officials.

Strauss Kahn is to be questioned about parties he attended at which prostitutes were present, French newspaper La Voix du Nord reports.

“He could easily have not known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of parties you’re not always dressed, and I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked women,” one of Strauss Kahn’s lawyers told a French radio station in December, the Associated Press reports.

Two men with ties to Strauss Kahn are  under preliminary investigation in France on charges which include organising a prostitution ring and misuse of corporate funds, according to The Associated Press.

Previously: Strauss-Kahn to be questioned over alleged links to ‘prostitution ring’ >

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    Mute David Higgins
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:31 AM

    He’s quite the lad isn’t he!

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    Mute Cyril Butler
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:23 AM

    DSk politics isnt really the right line of work for sex starved individuals. Perhaps security at the playboy mansion might be a better job more suited to your lifestyle.

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    Mute Arch Stanton
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:46 AM

    Why don’t the media leave the guy alone. DSK had to be shoe-horned into this story with a large crowbar. He attended parties at which prostitutes were present….nothing to do with him. Some men to which he has *ties* are *suspected* of crimes. So what? That makes DSK a witness at most. So why is he the focus of the story? You know, it’s not his fault that he was targeted, and had his career destroyed, by some lying gold-digger in New York. Why don’t the media go after the lying gold-digger? I haven’t heard mention of her ever since the media realized they had backed the wrong horse.

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    Mute Deirdre Forde
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    Feb 21st 2012, 12:12 PM

    Sorry, Arch, but even if you are one of the most powerful men in the world, behaviour such as DSK’s is going to catch up with you eventually.

    I’m glad that the exploits of the likes of him and Berlusconi can be exposed because it’s not fitting of people in their position.

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    Mute Paulie walnuts
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    Feb 21st 2012, 4:38 PM

    @deirdre….and what did DSK actually do that has been proven correct????

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    Mute Deirdre Forde
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    Feb 21st 2012, 5:01 PM

    The behaviour I refer to is his engagement in activities that no one contests, not even his lawyers. You can’t blame the media for being interested. He has no one to blame but himself.

    Regarding any criminal activity, he hasn’t been proven guitly.. nor has he been proven innocent. None of us, including Arch, are qualified to say he’s innocent.

    Wether he was aware of it or not, he had sex with prostitutes. Why shouldn’t he be investigated?

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    Mar 15th 2012, 10:17 AM
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:39 AM

    Taximan savages 3 women in clonee!!!!!!…… Media blackout anyone???????

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    Mute Joan Ryan
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:51 AM

    WHAT ?
    What Happened?

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    Mute Joan Ryan
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:58 AM

    Why don’t you leave the ” lying gold-digger” alone AS?

    If DSK has no case to answer, the French police will find him innocent. France has strict privacy laws and he has money for good lawyers.

    He has demonstrated a brass neck in the past. He knew there would be publicity if he “volunteered ” to talk to the police . He must have calculated the risks.

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    Mute Arch Stanton
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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:23 AM

    I wonder if the media, this time, will wait for actual evidence before calling for his head, but I doubt it.

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    Feb 21st 2012, 11:58 AM

    I wouldn’t mind taking guy up on that challenge…… Spot a naked prostitute from a naked women

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    Feb 21st 2012, 8:31 PM

    “He could easily have not known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of parties you’re not always dressed, and I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked women,” one of Strauss Kahn’s lawyers told a French radio station in December, the Associated Press reports.

    The lawyer makes it sounds like these sorts of parties are pretty routine. Obviously the parties I have been invited are very different to the ones he has been invited to…….

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