British police have opened a criminal investigation targeting a major name involved in the Epstein scandal
Former UK Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson. Credit line: Jonathan Brady / PA Images / Profimedia
The police in London have opened a criminal investigation targeting the former ambassador of the United Kingdom to the USA, Peter Mandelson. He is involved in the scandal of the Epstein files, which suggest that the sex abuser would have transferred $75,000 to accounts associated with the British politician in the period 2003-2004, Reuters and AFP inform.
According to documents from the Epstein file recently released by the US Department of Justice, in 2009, while he was trade minister in Gordon Brown's government, Mandelson forwarded an internal government email to Epstein. The message contained an analysis made by an adviser on the economic situation and addressed to Prime Minister Brown, but also addressed to Mandelson, notes Agerpres.
In another email, revealed by Britain's Financial Times, Peter Mandelson appears to suggest that Jeffrey Epstein ask the JPMorgan boss to “gently threaten” the British Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the tax on bankers' bonuses.
Mandelson retired from the political scene
Following the publication of new documents by the US Department of Justice, Peter Mandelson has announced that he is resigning as a member of the House of Lords and retiring from the Labor Party.
He has strongly denied the allegations, saying that he has no knowledge of these transactions during his term as a deputy and that the veracity of the American documents is uncertain.
“This weekend new links emerged between me and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which is understandable, and I regret that,” Mandelson said in a letter to the Labor Party general secretary.
Mandelson was sacked as Britain's ambassador to Washington in September by Prime Minister Keir Starmer after emails leaked to the media showed he was sending messages of support to Epstein in 2008, even as he was accused of sexually assaulting a minor.
Mandelson, a 72-year-old former minister and European commissioner, allegedly received money from Jeffrey Epstein on several occasions in the early 2000s, according to documents released late last week by the US Department of Justice.
Peter Mandelson is not the only high-profile figure targeted by the new revelations in the Epstein files. Among the names appearing in the documents are Prince Andrew, now subpoenaed by the government to testify in the US, as well as foreign officials such as Miroslav Lajčák, who left his post as national security adviser in Slovakia.
