"The 2008 crisis shows that the dominant economies were not as dominant as they thought," says Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Frenchformer head of the IMF.
His wife, Anne Sinclair, a well-liked Frenchformer television presenter, declared that she did not believe "for a single second" that her husband was guilty.
Investigating judges have spent years raiding premises, confiscating documents, decrypting computer files and interrogating witnesses, including two Frenchformer spymasters.