Strauss-Kahn details frustration, maintains innocence to former employees

{mosads}When Strauss-Kahn announced his resignation as head of the IMF on May 19, he similarly maintained his innocence.

“I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me,” he said in a statement posted on the IMF’s website.

He said in his e-mail that while he was confident that he would ultimately be found innocent, he did not think the IMF or its employees “should in any way have to share my own personal nightmare.”

“So, I had to go,” he wrote.

Before signing off, he offered praise to his former employees as the agency plays a key role in navigating Greece through its debt crisis.

“What the institution has achieved in the last three and a half years is the fruit of your thinking, your work, your conviction,” he wrote. “Thank you, good luck for the future, and au revoir. Dominique.”

Strauss-Kahn is currently on house arrest in New York City.

Meanwhile, the IMF is conducting a search for a new managing director. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is reportedly a front-runner to be Strauss-Kahn’s successor.