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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

‘Call me’: FCA releases messages between former Barclays boss and Jeffrey Epstein

Jes Staley – seen here attending a Downing Street event in October 2021
Jes Staley – seen here attending a Downing Street event in October 2021 – thanked Epstein for his ‘friendship’. Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Rex/Shutterstock

The UK’s financial watchdog has released a series of messages between former Barclays boss Jes Staley and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “referring to the strength of their friendship”.

The messages form part of its 79-page report, which says Staley and the late billionaire exchanged more than 1,100 emails between July 2008 and December 2012, and continued communicating “between January 2013 and October 2015, exchanging almost 600 emails during that period”.

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