MPF investigates Epstein’s network connection to Brazil

US documents cite emails about a woman going from Natal to meetings abroad

The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) opened a confidential investigation to investigate possible links between Brazil and the possible network of sexual exploitation of the North American. The procedure was initiated after the release of new documents by the United States Court involving a woman from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.

The National Unit to Combat International Trafficking in Persons is conducting investigations to clarify whether Brazilian women were victims of the international sexual exploitation scheme. The investigation gained momentum with the release of millions of pages of files by the US government, which revealed Epstein’s contacts with women in Brazil.

The investigative procedure was opened after the MPF analyzed documents showing email exchanges from 2011, in which the sending of a woman residing near Natal to meetings with Epstein in the USA was discussed. In the messages, the billionaire asked for photos of the young woman in “lingerie or bikini” and proposed to pay the expenses of the trip.

The facts under investigation would have taken place between 2006 and 2019, a period in which Epstein was in contact with several Brazilian women, including models. The communications involved promises to send money and arrange international travel.

Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of crimes of sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. He was accused of managing a sexual exploitation network that operated on his properties in the United States and on a private island in the Caribbean, victimizing several people. In 2019, while he was imprisoned in New York, he was found dead in his cell. The FBI that Epstein did not run a sex trafficking ring.