In Poland, the first revelations from the 300 million strong bundle of files on Jeffrey Epstein for great excitement. Although the billionaire died by suicide in a US prison in 2019, the public has only learned details about the trafficking in women and child sexual abuse he was accused of for a few days now.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk set up an investigative commission last week. It is intended to clarify whether Polish women and girls were also affected by the affair and whether Poles were also complicit as perpetrators.
“It’s about possible Cases of exploitation Polish children and possible connections to the activities of Russian secret services,” said Poland’s prime minister. There are indications of Polish traces in the documents, said Tusk.
He appointed Attorney General and Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek as well as Interior Minister and intelligence coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak to head the investigative commission made up of prosecutors, police officers and secret service officials.
Tusk wants more files
Tusk not only announced a detailed analysis of the files already published on the Internet, but also wants it ask American authorities for further fileswhich explicitly concern Poland but are still kept secret.
Meanwhile, the Polish media is talking about emails in which an alleged model scout, Daniel Siad, informs Epstein that it is possible to recruit a group of Polish women and girls in Krakow and in the mountain villages in the Tatra Mountains and the Beskydy Mountains.
The online portal Virtual Poland quoted from it: “I already have a few girls waiting for me,” Siad wrote directly to Epstein in May 2009. To do this, he had to travel by train, bus and taxi to “a Polish city called Krakow”. He needs at least 4,000 euros for travel and “recruitment” costs.
In June and July 2009, before the start of the summer holidays, Siad wanted to visit several smaller places in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, he wrote to Epstein. He assured Epstein that he was documenting his search and had already taken numerous photos. He promised the billionaire that he was preparing a “big surprise” for his upcoming visit to Paris.
Did Epstein knowingly produce incriminating material?
Daniel Siad worked closely with the once influential model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was also involved in trafficking women and girls on behalf of Epstein. Brunel, who was in a Paris detention center for numerous sexual crimes, committed suicide there in 2022.
Epstein also exchanged emails directly with Polish women. It should be loud to a model Virtual Poland have financed an apartment and studies.
Tusk suspects that Epstein may also have knowingly produced incriminating material for later blackmail by secret services. However, no name of a Polish politician has yet appeared in the published files.
Only the former tennis star and art patron Wojciech Fibak had to explain why his name appeared several times in the files. In an interview with the tabloid Fact he says: “Epstein was no stranger to New York. We were neighbors, met in restaurants and at art openings. We had many acquaintances in common.”
The email correspondence between him and the billionaire related primarily to Epstein’s planned art investments. “I collected pictures by Warhol and Basquiat, and he was also a collector and also a very well-read person.” He knew nothing about Epstein’s illegal activities and had no private contact with him.