New York (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will move to a new apartment, where he will remain under around-the-clock armed guard on charges he tried to rape a hotel maid, after a judge approved his plans on Wednesday.

"The judge received a phone call from the parties and they have agreed to a new location," said New York State Courts spokesman David Bookstaver.

Bookstaver said he did not know where Strauss-Kahn was moving to or when he would move.

Strauss-Kahn was released on $1 million cash bail and $5 million insurance bond on Friday and taken temporarily to an apartment in Lower Manhattan after attempts to rent a luxury apartment elsewhere in the city fell through.

Strauss-Kahn, who spent four nights last week at New York`s notorious Rikers Island jail, has denied charges of a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching. He is due back in court on June 6.

(Reporting by Basil Katz, writing by Michelle Nichols, editing by Mark Egan and Will Dunham)
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