Searches are underway today as part of a preliminary investigation against former Minister of Culture and then Education, socialist Jack Lang (Jack, 86) and his daughter Caroline Lang (Caroline, 64) for money laundering and tax fraud in connection with the affair of the late American financier and pimp of women and minors Jeffrey Epstein (Jeffrey Epstein, 1953-2019), the State Financial Prosecutor's Office announced.
Investigators from the National Anti-Fraud Office are conducting a search at the Arab World Institute in Paris, of which Jack Lang was president until he resigned a little over a week ago, after revealing his financial ties to Epstein, who died under suspicious circumstances in a US prison, media reported.
On February 6, French prosecutors launched a preliminary investigation into suspicions of serious tax fraud and money laundering, specifically in connection with an offshore company in the US Virgin Islands, which Epstein set up in 2016 for the benefit of Caroline Lang.
"The investigation comes after the recent release of nearly three million documents and files from the U.S. Department of Justice relating to legal proceedings and investigations directed against Epstein," the prosecutor's office said.
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