NEW YORK - Court of Manhattan, New York, freeing former IMF managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, from house arrest on Friday. Liberation came after prosecutors presented evidence of dubious credibility of the hotel maid who accused Strauss-Kahn had sexually assaulted.According to court documents filed by prosecutors said on Friday, suspected victim, a 32-year-old female immigrant from Guinea, Africa, admitted to prosecutors that he lied about his whereabouts after the incident, about the details of the asylum application, and the information included in tax return form.
But Manhattan attorney, Cy Vance, said that, despite having changed dramatically, it has not been terminated. The charges and demands, including acts of sexual crimes and sexual harassment, against Strauss-Kahn (62 years), still applies, says Vance.
Lawyers Strauss-Kahn said the suspects said the victim had been "a big lie about his own background and facts of the case".
Lawyer Benjamin Brafman Vance commended for doing what he values as appropriate. "We believed from the outset that this case does not appear as they are," he said. "We really believe that today is the first major step in the right direction, the next step will lead to a total cessation of all charges."
Liberation Strauss-Kahn will significantly reduce the amount of collateral whose value is exceptional, as defined previously. French financial experts had been released from prison on bail worth 6 million dollars but remains under house arrest in a luxury townhouse in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. Under the court ruling, he also must pay about 250 thousand dollars per month for armed security officers during the 24-hour guard stationed at the townhouse.
The judge presiding over the court said, the authorities will continue to hold the passports of Strauss-Kahn, but he could travel freely in the territory of the United States.
Astounding changes in the case came after the prosecutors, in the course of their investigation, found that the unexpected victim is not really honest in a variety of topics concerning the history and circumstances, the prosecutors said in a letter submitted to the court. Prosecutors said the women claimed to have lied in the filing of asylum to the United States and that he has been the victim of a gang rape, and provides details about the rape. She cried when I first told prosecutors about the rape, but in a subsequent interview, he admitted that rape by a gang that never happened.
He said the false report on the asylum application was made with the help of a man who "set him on a tape recording of the facts (which must be memorized)." The woman told prosecutors that he had declared the son of a friend as dependents on his tax form fields in order to receive a refund (tax) is greater.
After the alleged assault by Strauss-Kahn at the hotel, the woman told prosecutors that he "fled to an area in the main hallway on the 28th floor of the hotel and wait there until he observed the defendant go," said the prosecutor. He then said that she then reported the incident to his superiors. But in subsequent interviews, she admitted that her testimony before the grand jury was false. Yan is true, he says, he "began to clean the room nearby, and then returned to the suite in 2806 (rooms occupied by Strauss-Kahn) and began to clean the suite before she reported the incident to his superiors."
In a statement delivered in a tone of anger outside the courthouse, the woman's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, acknowledges the problem of credibility with clients. However, he asserts, in essence, she was attacked. "(Still) exactly what happened on that day and that was true until today," he said. "He has explained it many times sexual abuse to prosecutors and me. And he did not change a thing about the report that," added Thompson.
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