Vladimir Putin’s name appears more than 1,000 times in the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice. The release, comprising more than three million pages of documents, emails and images, has prompted fresh scrutiny of Epstein’s international contacts.
Reports show that Epstein spent years seeking a meeting with the Russian president, discussing investment, digital currencies and geopolitics with a circle of senior Russian and European figures. There is, however, no evidence in the files that Epstein and Putin ever met. Inclusion in the documents does not imply wrongdoing by those named.
