Mr. Strauss-Kahn has been charged with “aggravated pimping” and could if convicted face a maximum 10-year prison sentence and a fine of up to €1.5 million ($1.7 million), according to court documents.
French magistrates suspect Mr. Strauss-Kahn of being one of the organizers of sex parties with prostitutes in a case known in France as the “Carlton affair”, after the hotel where an alleged prostitution ring operated in the northern French city of Lille.