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French judges on Monday found IMF chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence for failing to challenge a €400m ($417m) state arbitration payout to a business tycoon in 2008 when she was French finance minister.
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Despite the ruling ,the judges did not hand down any sentence in the case on her decision to allow the rare out-of-court arbitration payment. She has denied the negligence charges.
Her lawyer said immediately after the ruling that his team would look into appealing the decision.
The ruling risks triggering a new leadership crisis at the International Monetary Fund after Lagarde's predecessor Dominique Strauss Khan resigned in 2011 over a sexual-assault scandal.
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