Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, was denied bail and remanded into custody on Monday by a Manhattan Criminal Court judge on charges that included attempted rape.

After a half-hour arraignment, which began around noon, the judge, Melissa Jackson, sided with the prosecution’s argument that Strauss-Kahn was a flight risk and decided he would not be released, despite the $1 million dollar bail his lawyer offered. Assistant District Attorney John McConnell successfully argued that due to the severity of the charges and lack of an extradition treaty between France and the United States, there was no guarantee that Strauss-Kahn, a French citizen, would come back if he left the U.S.

“He has no incentive to stay in this country,” McConnell said, “and every incentive and reason to leave.”

Strauss-Kahn, 62, allegedly imprisoned a maid in his room in a midtown hotel in New York and tried to rape her on Saturday. He is charged with criminal sexual act in the first degree, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, as well as with attempted rape, sexual abuse in the first and third degree, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.

His defense lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, argued that his client is an internationally renowned figure who had no interest in becoming a fugitive and had already turned in his only passport. His wife, an American-born French journalist, Anne Sinclair, was coming to New York on Monday and had already wired $1 million from her personal account for bail, Brafman said.

But the judge expressed concern that Strauss-Kahn had nearly succeeded in leaving the country on Saturday. He was pulled of an Air France flight on Saturday afternoon at the John F. Kennedy International Airport by the Port Authority police, just minutes before the plane was scheduled to take off for Paris.

McConnell said that in the video, where Strauss-Kahn is seen leaving the hotel after the alleged assault, he seemed like a man who was in a hurry. Brafman challenged that and said his client rushed to a lunch meeting in the vicinity of the Sofitel Hotel, where he was staying.

Later, he was on a flight that had been scheduled days earlier because of his upcoming meeting with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Brafman said. And he even let hotel security know that he was at JFK when they called to tell him he had left his cell phone behind.

“That’s the clearest evidence of the fact he was not looking to flee,” Brafman said. “This is not a case of someone who commits a crime, runs to the airport and gets on the first available flight.”

Judge Jackson remained unswayed by the argument, declined to set bail and decided Strauss-Kahn would appear in court again on May 20 before a grand jury.