Former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France.

Reuters reported that New York police arrested Strauss-Kahn a year ago when hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo accused him of forcible MouthAction and trying to rape her in his luxury suite at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan.

Strauss-Kahn denied the allegations, saying the sexual encounter with Diallo was consensual. Prosecutors later dropped the charges after losing confidence in Diallo's credibility.

Diallo nonetheless sued Strauss-Kahn for unspecified damages in Supreme Court in the New York City borough of the Bronx, where she lived at the time.

The countersuit was filed on Monday on the anniversary of the incident and a day before Francois Hollande - the Socialist who took the nomination that Strauss-Kahn was once favored to win - was sworn in as president of France.

Strauss-Kahn denied all wrongdoing in the countersuit and accused Diallo of "knowingly and intentionally making a false report to law enforcement authorities."

"Soon after she entered the room, Ms. Diallo and Mr. Strauss-Kahn engaged in mutually consensual acts," the claim states. "No violence, force or coercion attended their sexual encounter, and Ms. Diallo suffered no injuries whatsoever."

The former international financier seeks damages for his arrest, which included jail time at New York's Rikers Island and house arrest in an upscale Manhattan neighborhood; for losing his job as managing director of the IMF; and for harm to his reputation.

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