D-Day for IMF chief today
July 22, 2016  13:07
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde is to find out today whether she will stand trial in France over a massive state payout to tycoon Bernard Tapie when she was French economy minister nearly a decade ago.

France's top appeals court will rule on Lagarde's challenge to a December court ruling that she be tried for negligence in the affair, which ended with Tapie walking away with 404 million euros (USD 445 million) in taxpayer money.

If the court orders a trial, the 60-year-old will go before a special tribunal that hears cases against government ministers accused of wrongdoing in the discharge of their duties.
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