The “scandalous” heads of the IMF – Clarín.com

For the IMF to come parading authorities with baggage scandalous. The fault that was found “guilty of negligence” to Christine Lagarde now in the club of directors of the entity that have been passed by the justice.

The most celebrated case is without a doubt the former managing director of the Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and a highly publicized case of sexual abuse that uncovered a sordid underworld in the private life of the French.

See also: Declared “guilty” of negligence to the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde

The instability and the controversial external are marking the last mandate within the IMF: since the year 2004 none of the directors has complied with the five years that had stipulated in its mandate, and the last three have had to confront as in the case of Lagarde, to judicial instances.

Lagarde is the latest case of directors of the Fund with spots on your image, to be found guilty of negligence by a millionaire diversion of public funds, when he was minister of Economy Nicolas Sarkozy in favour of businessman Bernard Tapie, in 2007.

Horst Köhler (2000-2004), critical of fiscal policy, american George W. Bush, left ahead of time his charge to the front of the Bottom to move to assume the presidency of the German government, which makes it the only manager that you have not added a judicial scandal to his untimely departure of the IMF since the beginning of the millennium. From there passed through the post Rodrigo Rato, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and now Lagarde, all with a score of imperfect, and in the case of the first two with the reputation for the ground.

Rodrigo Rato, director-manager between 2004 and 2007, he picked a terrible race after his departure from the prestigious IMF, to be charged with offences of fraud, money laundering and lift of goods related to its management as of 2010 in the presidency of Caja Madrid and Bankia, in Spain.

Strauss-Kahn (who officially lives in Morocco) replaced Time, and was acquitted this summer after being accused of pandering to luxury the French justice, a case which took over power after the resignation of the former minister, French socialist from his position at the head of the Fund in 2011 due to the scandal of alleged rape of a female employee of a hotel in New York.

these cases are added, the condemnation of the former president of the Commission on Financial and Monetary of the IMF (the group that directs the policies of the Fund), the egyptian Youssef Boutros-Ghali.

Boutros-Ghali had assumed that position in 2008, but resigned in 2011, shortly before being sentenced for corruption in absentia to 30 years in prison in a maximum-security prison.

An egyptian court also ordered him to pay seventy million egyptian pounds (7.6 million euros) for “squandering and abusing public funds”.

Butros Ghali managed to asilarse in Great Britain, after a series of investigations put into doubt the accusations against it, driven apparently for religious reasons, and politicians under the regime of Mohamed Morsi.