France opens probe into group rape ‘involving Strauss-Kahn’

The former IMF chief is under formal investigation over whether he was aware he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when attending sex parties in Lille,Paris and Washington in 2010 and 2011 that were organised by business acquaintances.

Investigators asked prosecutors to extend the inquiry after a prostitute told them in her deposition that Strauss-Kahn and friends forced her to have sex in a group when she came to Washington to meet him in December 2010. The woman has not filed a formal complaint.

“Following accusations by investigators… relating to events in Washington between December 15 and 18,2010 that they believe could be qualified as group rape,” Lille Prosecutors have ordered the start of a preliminary inquiry,prosecutors said in a statement.

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The case,dubbed the Carlton affair after the high-class hotel where the prostitution ring is alleged to have operated,is the latest scandal to rock Strauss-Kahn,whose career was shattered last year by another sexual encounter.