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Norway to investigate links between Jeffrey Epstein and foreign office (www.theguardian.com)

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The release of the Epstein files in January sent shockwaves through Norway after multiple figures from the highest echelons of society -- including the crown princess and a former prime minister -- were named in them.

The foreign office was also drawn into the spreading scandal after the financial crimes squad, Økokrim, said it was is investigating Mona Juul, Norway's former ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, on suspicion of gross corruption while working at the ministry of foreign affairs. Her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, also a former diplomat and former president of the International Peace Institute, is being investigated by Økokrim on suspicion of complicity in gross corruption.

The couple were part of a small group of diplomats who facilitated the 1993-1995 Oslo accords. The Epstein files appear to show that Juul and Rød-Larsen’s two children were bequeathed $10m by Epstein and that Rød-Larsen was appointed executor of Epstein’s will in 2017, which was later revoked.

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can do THAT?

-The United States!

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Self investigation finds nothing wrong globally. Every country is just playing time here