Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who faces aggravated pimping charges in France, will serve as an economic adviser for Serbia’s top officials, the Balkan country’s deputy prime minister said, reports The Washington Post.
Aleksandar Vucic told state television late Thursday that Strauss-Kahn will advise him and Serbia’s prime minister and finance minister on restructuring the country’s large foreign debt.
Vucic, a powerful Serbian politician, asserted that the charges against Strauss-Kahn did not tarnish his reputation as a financial expert.
To claim they have, Vucic said, would be as illogical as saying Pablo Picasso’s abilities as a painter should be judged by his unfair treatment of some of the women and children in his life.
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