NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested in New York on Saturday and accused of a sexual attack on a hotel maid, The New York Times reported.
The newspaper, citing a Port Authority spokesman, said Strauss-Kahn, also a possible Socialist candidate in next April's French presidential election, was arrested minutes before he was to due to fly to Paris from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
The Times quoted authorities as saying Strauss-Kahn, 62, was accused of a "sex attack" on a maid at a Times Square hotel earlier in the day.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, took over the IMF in November 2007. Before that, he was a member of the French National Assembly and a professor of economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
In October 2008, Strauss-Kahn apologized for "an error of judgement" in an affair with a subordinate, but denied he had abused his position.
Strauss-Kahn apologized to employees, the woman he had the affair with, Piroska Nagy, and his wife, French television personality Anne Sinclair, for the trouble it had caused.
