IMF Boss' Career�Faces Ruin after she is found GUILTY of criminal negligence

Paris judges on Monday found IMF chief Christine Lagarde guilty of financial negligence leaving her tenure at the organisation dangling by a thread. 

The 60-year-old was not in the specially convened Court of Justice of the Republic to hear the 'symbolic verdict' and reports suggest she has returned to the US where she lives and works. 

Instead it was left to her defence barrister Patrick Maisonneuve to say: 'We would have preferred an acquittal pure and simple'.