Former prime minister, investigated in Europe for links with Jeffrey Epstein. Suspicions of “aggravated corruption”
Thorbjorn Jagland Photo: Roses Nicolas/ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia
The Norwegian police announced on Thursday the opening of an investigation into former Prime Minister Thorbjorn Jagland, on suspicion of aggravated corruption due to his ties with the American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reports AFP, taken over by Agerpres.
Head of the Labor government from 1996 to 1997, Jagland was chairman of the Nobel Committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize and secretary general of the Council of Europe during the time he established links with Epstein in the 2010s.
The police “opened an investigation into the former prime minister, former president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and former secretary general of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, on suspicion of aggravated corruption,” the National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crimes indicated in a statement.
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According to the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang, which is based on the documents published on Friday by the American Department of Justice, Jagland requested a guarantee from the American financier for the purchase of an apartment, without knowing the result of this request.
In addition, Jagland lived with Epstein in New York in 2018, as well as in Paris in 2015 and 2018, according to the same documents.
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The former Norwegian prime minister and his family had also planned a 2014 trip to the island of the American sex offender, who killed himself in prison in 2019, but that trip was ultimately cancelled.
For his part, the Norwegian Foreign Minister indicated that he will request the Council of Europe to lift the immunity enjoyed by Jagland by virtue of his position as Secretary General, which he held between 2009 and 2019.
