International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde faced questions at a special Paris court today over her role in the €400m pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France’s finance minister.

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JEROME Kerviel has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay Societe Generale’s €4.9 billion trading loss by a judge who said the former trader’s actions threatened the bank’s existence.