I love the way that first sentence is written. The managing director of the IMF is guilty of criminal misuse of funds. Yet it is characterized as “negligence” and the penalty will be that she loses her job. Maybe I’m just ignorant, but if most people were guilty of criminal misuse of funds, wouldn’t they spend a little time in jail in addition to losing their job? I mean, losing your job would be a given, and then the question would be are you going to jail or will you just be on some type of probation? I guess there really are separate rules for the elites.
No, this is a ridiculous charge. The French government illegally confiscated a millionaire’s money. He sued for his money back and won. Then there was arbitration to decide what he was owed. The Arbitration board that Christine Lagarde was not on, decided an amount. Christine did not fight the boards decision. She was not under any obligation to do so. But people are mad at her. And don’t like giving a millionaire back his money. So they said she should have sued in the name of the French government.
The courts don’t like that Arbitration was used. The socialists don’t like that she gave a millionaire back his own money. The nationalists hate her because she is a globalists. She has lots of enemies here. I don’t like her much myself. But this is not a legal charge. Its telling an office holder that any decision they make can be called a crime in the future.