French judges on Monday found IMF chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence for failing to challenge a US$417 million state arbitration payout to a business tycoon in 2008 when she was French finance minister. Despite the ruling, the judges did not hand down any sentence in the case on her decision to allow the rare out-of-court arbitration payment. The ruling risks triggering a new leadership crisis at the International Monetary Fund after Lagarde’s predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Khan, resigned in 2011 over a sex assault scandal.
— source telesurtv.net