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A year after the scandal broke, the former French Socialist party presidential hopeful accused the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, of “knowingly and intentionally making a false report to law-enforcement authorities,” the New York Post said on Tuesday, citing court documents.

The countersuit lodged on Monday at the Bronx Supreme Court claims that the maid’s “malicious and wanton false allegation” undermined Strauss-Kahn’s reputation and damaged “other professional opportunities,” said the filing without specifying political ambitions that were rocked by the scandal, the Post added.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn 

 

Before the allegations brought down the IMF chief in the wake of his arrest last year in New York City, the 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn was seen as a champion of France’s Socialist Party and expected to beat vulnerable President Nicolas Sarkozy at the polls this year.

Instead, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande stood against Sarkozy, and won, and took his oath of office on Tuesday.

The Post said that Strauss-Kahn’s suit also charged Diallo with “malicious prosecution, abuse of process, false imprisonment, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

His legal team was able to undermine the maid’s criminal case last year, but the once-high-flying statesman has been helpless against a US judge who rejected his claim to diplomatic immunity and ordered a civil trial to go ahead.

In recent weeks Strauss-Kahn has been implicated in a prostitution ring probe in northern France, although he has insisted that he was unaware that women at the numerous orgies he took part in were prostitutes.