Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk alleged that Jeffrey Epstein may have been a Russian agent, prompting a sharp dismissal from the Kremlin regarding the potential intelligence links.
Tusk Claims Epstein May Have Been a Russian Agent
During a government session on Tuesday, February 3, Donald Tusk announced that a special team of analysts would be established to investigate potential Polish links in the Jeffrey Epstein case. He stated that “increasingly more traces, information, and comments in global media concern the suspicion that the pedophilia affair was co-organized by Russian special services.”
Tusk argued that the fact that Epstein recorded high-ranking politicians serves as evidence. “In the documents published so far, there are over a thousand documents concerning Vladimir Putin directly. Nine thousand concern Moscow, speaking of the Russian political environment. The FBI claims it possessed information that Mr. Epstein managed part of Vladimir Putin’s assets,” the Prime Minister added.
Kremlin Spokesman Responds to Tusk
Following the release of the latest batch of documents regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Western media suggested that the financier, accused of sex crimes, might have had connections to the Kremlin. Reuters asked the Kremlin spokesman for a comment. “I would like to joke about this topic, but let’s not waste time,” replied Dmitry Peskov.
Other anonymous Russian officials, cited by Reuters, claim that reports of Epstein’s links to Moscow are merely an attempt to divert attention. In their view, the scandal regarding the financier’s revealed crimes “exposed the hypocrisy of influential men in the USA and Europe.”
Russian Threads in Epstein’s Files
On Friday, January 30, the Department of Justice published another tranche of materials from the investigations concerning Jeffrey Epstein. In total, approximately three million pages of documents, two thousand videos, and 180,000 photos were shared. According to the United24 portal, these included 1,056 references to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Moscow was mentioned over 9,500 times.
The documents indicate, among other things, that the financier sought direct contact and a meeting with the Russian leader, although he created the impression that an acquaintance with Putin was already a fact. For example, in an email from 2010, he asks a person with the pseudonym Vlad if he would need a visa. “I have a friend (Vladimir) Putin, should I ask him about this?” the message reads.
He also wrote about meetings with the dictator in messages to former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland. He also allegedly insisted that Putin fly to the United States.
