2026-02-06 15:43
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2026-02-06 15:43
The Prosecutor General, the head of the Ministry of Justice, Waldemar Żurek, announced on Friday that the team he coordinated for the so-called Epstein scandal will have to ask the United States to provide full, also undisclosed, documentation regarding the case.
– We will definitely have to apply to the United States for access to documentation that has not been disclosed – said Żurek, when asked during Friday's conference about the team's future work. But first, he added, the team will analyze the already available material.
– We know that – as the media indicates today – people number 2 and 3 on Epstein's staff were Poles – noted Żurek, referring to the information that two Poles had been working alongside the financier for years. – We finally have traces that the recruitment of women, perhaps also minors, took place in Poland – he added.
He emphasized that the team will have analytical and investigative tasks, which will most likely have to be separated.
The head of the Ministry of Justice intends to announce the full composition of the team next week. It will include prosecutors and service and police officers.
When asked whether the team intends to cooperate with the Epstein scandal commissions established by other countries, he replied that he thought that “the Polish commission (…) will certainly undertake such cooperation.” – But we have a lot of work to do here – he noted.
At the end of January, the US Ministry of Justice published about 3 million pages of documents from the case files related to the American financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They include, among others: Epstein's correspondence with or mentions of prominent people from various countries, including politicians. Epstein was convicted in 2008 in a Florida state court of sexually abusing minors. In 2019, federal prosecutors charged him with trafficking minors for sexual exploitation. He died in custody the same year.
The decision to create a team to deal with Polish aspects of the Epstein scandal was announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The head of government then said that the team would examine, among others: possible cases of child abuse, as well as the issue of the involvement of Russian services raised by experts.
Minister Żurek then announced that the analytical team would want to find out, among other things, which people could potentially take part in the procedure, whether Polish women were also recruited and whether they were adults. The head of the Ministry of Justice noted that he had already talked to the minister, coordinator of special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, and the minister of internal affairs and administration, Marcin Kierwiński, with whom he cooperated in coordinating the team.
Women from Poland appear several times in Epstein's correspondence. The disclosed documents suggest that he had a particularly intense relationship with one of the Polish models, to whom he repeatedly offered advice on career development and with whom he discussed politics. The shared documents also include a mention of a meeting with former tennis player Wojciech Fibak. (PAP)
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