Prosecutors set to drop DSK sex charges

French prosecutors have recommended the dismissal of pimping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, signalling a possible end to the former IMF chief’s legal battle over sex scandals that destroyed his career.

Strauss-Kahn was charged last year with helping to procure prostitutes for sex parties in one of a string of cases that came to light after he was forced to resign from his IMF job over an alleged sex attack on a New York hotel maid.

But the prosecutor’s office in Lille, where some parties took place, has announced it considered the evidence against Strauss-Kahn and one other man, Jean-Luc Vergin, as insufficient for them to be sent to trial.