The farce is officially over. They wanted him out at the IMF and didn't have the votes to do it, so they recruited/blackmailed/terrorized an immigrant into claiming rape.
At the top of the economic food chain, where the oligarchs live, there is complete lawlessness. They own this planet, and they act like it.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/22/39176.htm