NEW YORK International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested Saturday minutes before he was to leave for France, after being accused of a sexual attack on a hotel maid in New York, The New York Times reported. Strauss-Kahn, widely expected to be a candidate for president of France in 2012, "was taken off an Air France flight by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and turned over to city detectives, according to a Port Authority spokesman cited by the Times. "He was accused of a sex attack on a maid at a Times Square hotel earlier in the day," the report added. In Washington, an IMF spokeswoman had no immediate comment. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who has been the IMF's managing director since Sept. 28, 2007, is married to a television news reporter, the Times said. In 2008, he was accused of having had a sexual relationship with a subordinate, Piroska Nagy, a senior official in the monetary fund's Africa department. She left the IMF and Strauss-Kahn later apologized for an "error in judgment," the Times said He was being questioned by the New York Police Department (NYPD) special victims office. Strauss-Kahn had retained an attorney and was not making statements to police, a police official said. No charges have yet been filed.