Ex-IMF boss Kahn freed from house arrest

FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest yesterday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements.

Strauss-Kahn, aged 62, still faces charges that he sexually assaulted the woman in New York but questions about her credibility appear to be shifting the case in his favour in a twist that could upend French politics.

The former steward of the global economy smiled as he left court with his wife, Anne Sinclair, at his side.