Epstein files unveil sex offender's ties with Kremlin insiders

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/50660468

Emails released by the US Department of Justice show that between 2011 and 2019, the financier also acted as a facilitator for members of the Russian elite, helping with real estate transactions and offshore financial arrangements.

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[Epstein's] most regular contact was Sergei Beliakov, a senior Russian official trained at the Academy of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet KGB. Epstein met with him on several occasions, maintaining extensive correspondence. In an email dated January 2016 and titled "My new position," Beliakov informed Epstein that he had started working for the Russian Direct Investment Fund, led by Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin's current envoy to the US administration for ending Russia's war on Ukraine.

Two years earlier, Beliakov, then president of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, asked Epstein how to circumvent Western sanctions imposed on Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The financier recommended a de-dollarization strategy, the use of cryptocurrencies and a loan valued at "500 billion," with no further details.

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