IMF gives backing to embattled boss

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Christine Lagard
Christine Lagard

The IMF is reiterating its confidence in managing director Christine Lagarde's leadership after a French court stopped just short of charging her in an investigation of a pay-off to a businessman.

Ms Lagarde was questioned at length for two days last week in the French hearings, which concluded by naming her a key witness in the probe of the pay-off arranged while she was France's finance minister.
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