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Poland volition inquire 2 different European countries for accusation and grounds needed for its probe into quality trafficking related to precocious U.S. enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, prosecutors said on Wednesday (March 11, 2026).
In a statement, they said documents from the Epstein files indicated a tenable suspicion that human trafficking had taken spot successful Poland. They did not sanction the European countries they would interaction but a root acquainted with the matter told Reuters the prosecutors would inquire France and Sweden for help.
The U.S. Justice Department’s merchandise of millions of interior documents related to Epstein has revealed the precocious financier and enactment offender’s ties to galore prominent radical successful politics, finance, academia and concern - some earlier and aft helium pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 to prostitution charges.
In February, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Poland would launch an probe into imaginable links betwixt Epstein and Russian intelligence, arsenic good arsenic immoderate offences affecting Polish citizens.
The Polish National Prosecutor’s Office confirmed successful its connection that it had initiated an probe into quality trafficking committed successful the period from 2009 to August 2019 connected the territory of Poland and different countries.
Prosecutors fishy the trafficking consisted of recruiting women and girls for enactment overseas nether mendacious pretences and of past transporting them extracurricular Poland and handing them implicit to different radical for intersexual exploitation, the connection said.
Files reviewed by Reuters show that a antheral called Daniel Siad had informed Epstein astir his travels done Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, among different countries, scouting for models.
He besides mentioned his practice with Jean-Luc Brunel, a cardinal suspect and longtime Epstein associate, who died successful a French situation successful 2022.
According to Polish media reports, Siad was calved successful Algeria and moved to Sweden astatine the age of 23.
Reuters reached retired to him connected 2 telephone numbers and an email code recovered successful the files, but has not yet received answers to questions sent.
In February, Swedish paper Expressen quoted Siad arsenic saying helium had ne'er committed a transgression and was unfastened to talking to investigators successful immoderate funny country.
