????國際貨幣基金組織（IMF）總裁克里斯蒂娜?拉加德因其2008年的相關行為遭到了法國法院的正式調查。

????在IMF上一任總裁、法國人多米尼克?斯特勞斯-卡恩遭到性侵酒店女傭的指控后，拉加德接掌了IMF。法院懷疑拉加德在任法國財政部長期間涉嫌瀆職（當時薩科齊政府執(zhí)政）。

????具體而言，法院開展調查的原因在于，她授權付給商人貝爾納德?塔皮耶4億歐元賠償，就塔皮耶起訴里昂信貸銀行（Crédit Lyonnais）這一糾纏多年的官司達成和解。里昂信貸銀行是一家法國國有銀行，因大肆放貸于上世紀90年代初破產(chǎn)。

????塔皮耶同時也是前任社會黨部長，在2007年法國總統(tǒng)大選中曾高調支持右傾的薩科齊。2008年，也就是塔皮耶向薩科齊提供支持不到一年后，他的官司得到了和解。

????拉加德否認了任何與瀆職有關的質疑。

????法新社（AFP）援引她的話稱：“我已讓我的律師對法院這一決定提起上訴，我認為這一指控是完全沒有依據(jù)的?！?/p>

????在法國司法界，遭到正式調查意味著法院認為犯罪行為已發(fā)生?！督鹑跁r報》（Financial Times）援引拉加德發(fā)言人的話稱，這一未有定論的罪行最高量刑是一年期監(jiān)禁。但是僅開展調查并不意味著被調查對象將受到指控。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：Feng

????International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has been placed under formal investigation by a French court for her role in dating back to 2008.

????Lagarde, who took over from fellow-Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the IMF after the latter was embroiled in allegations of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, is suspected by the court of “negligence” while serving as Finance Minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

????Specifically, the court’s concerns refer to the €400 million payment that she approved to businessman Bernard Tapie to settle a long-running litigation against Crédit Lyonnais, a state-owned bank that collapsed in the early 1990s after a reckless lending spree.

????The settlement, in 2008, followed less than a year after Tapie, a former Socialist minister, gave high-profile support to the center-right campaign of Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential elections.

????Lagarde denies any suggestion of having acted improperly.

????“I have instructed my lawyer to appeal this decision which I consider totally without merit,” AFP quoted her as saying.

????In the French judicial system, being placed under formal investigation reflects the court’s belief that a crime has been committed. The Financial Times cited Lagarde’s spokesman as saying that the maximum penalty for the crime in question would be a year in prison. But merely placing someone under investigation doesn’t automatically mean they will be charged.