Arya News - Jeffrey Epstein was likely to have been a Russian spy, the Polish prime minister has said.
Jeffrey Epstein was likely to have been a Russian spy, the Polish prime minister has said.
In an unprecedented intervention after the Epstein document release, Poland is to examine the paedophile’s links with Russian intelligence services .
Donald Tusk said: “More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services.
“I don’t need to tell you how serious the increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organised this operation is for the security of the Polish state.
“This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today.”
The US justice department’s recent release of millions of documents related to Epstein underlined the extent of his ties to significant political figures, including the Russian president.
Among the millions of files that have been released, 1,056 mention Vladimir Putin and more than 9,000 refer to Moscow.
The files revealed that Epstein was granted audiences with the Russian president, including after the American financier was convicted in 2008 of procuring a minor for prostitution.
In 2010, Epstein sent an email to an associate offering to help them obtain a Russian visa, explaining: “I have a friend of Putin’s, should I ask him?”
The consistent appearance of Russian women and politicians in the Epstein files has led some to question whether he may have been running a classic ‘kompromat’ operation
Emails featured in the latest release of files also reveal that Epstein and his associates would often recruit young Russian women into their network.
They showed that Epstein offered to introduce Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to a “beautiful” 26-year-old Russian woman .
Epstein said he could arrange to introduce him to a woman named only as “Irina”, in an email sent in August 2010. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor denies wrongdoing and has not responded to the latest release.
The files include email requests to book flights for models and escorts between Moscow, Paris, and New York. In a 2010 email to a person whose name has been redacted, Epstein wrote: “Tomorrow I’m organising a dinner for some new Russian girls … see you at 10.”
The consistent appearance of Russian women and politicians in the files has led some to question whether Epstein may have been running a classic “kompromat” operation. This would involve luring influential businessmen, media moguls, and politicians into sexual encounters with women before using them as blackmail.
Tanya Kozyreva, a Kyiv-based reporter who focuses on high-level corruption worldwide, said the files showed signs of a “kompromat” operation.
She wrote: “Epstein reportedly had contact with Russian officials and Putin himself. Many of his girls were Russian. Powerful Western elites passed through his orbit. What are the odds this wasn’t a classic Russian ‘kompromat’ operation – and that DoJ is just ignoring the elephant in the room?”
‘Insight’ on Trump
It is understood that Epstein had several meetings with Putin. In September 2011, he received an email from an unidentified associate who mentioned “an appointment with Putin” during a trip to Russia.
The files released on Friday suggested Epstein had another meeting set up with the Russian leader in 2014, although it is not clear whether it went ahead.
In later emails, Epstein said he could offer “insight” on Donald Trump to Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. “It is not complex. He [Trump] must be seen to get something. It’s that simple,” Epstein wrote.
Russia’s foreign ministry has not commented on Mr Tusk’s latest revelations. In December, Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, said the Epstein files showed the hypocrisy of Western elites.
“Here, as I understood, were all the Western ‘lecturers on life’ who looked down on Russia and who lectured us about ‘democracy and human rights’ in interesting poses with equally interesting leisure partners,” she said on Telegram.
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