New evidence reveals that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused hundreds of women and girls on his Caribbean island until 2019.
The prosecutor of the Virgin Islands seized justice Wednesday to request the seizure of the property of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, whom she accuses of having sexually assaulted minors in the archipelago until 2019.
An extension of the proceedings initiated
Indicted in July 2019 for sexual assault by the Manhattan federal prosecutor, the sixty-year-old hanged himself in his cell on August 10, At New York.
The appeal filed by the Virgin Islands prosecutor, Denise George, is an extension of the criminal proceedings against the financier, which were dropped after his death.
The millionaire owned, in fact, two private islands in the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, Little St. James and Great St. James. The Virgin Islands is an American territory but is not officially part of the United States.
This new legal action constitutes an important development since the asset manager has never been charged with acts subsequent to 2005.
The appeal filed Wednesday covers a period from 2001 to 2019. At a press conference on Wednesday, Denise George said that she had ordered an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein shortly after taking office in May 2019.
12 year old victims
According to the prosecutor, the investigation showed that the financier had organized a “vast network of traffic in human beings, and sexual abuse of young women and minors here, in the Virgin Islands”.
The youngest alleged victims are said to be 12 years old, the prosecutor said. To hide these activities, Jeffrey Epstein would have used a complex montage involving a series of companies and foundations, according to Denise George.
The prosecutor requests the seizure of all the goods that could have been used, in his “criminal enterprise”, for this man whose personal fortune, with mysterious origins, would reach more than 500 million dollars.
Several lawsuits have already been brought in civil cases, mainly by alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who are claiming damages.
At the same time, several investigations are underway to try to establish possible complicity. American justice is particularly interested in the former partner of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, accused by several alleged victims of having played a decisive role in the organization of the presumed network of exploitation of minors.
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