Met Police investigating Mandelson over €500 billion eurozone-bailout email to Epstein
Police are investigating Lord Peter Mandelson over emails he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein about his €500bn Eurozone bailout, according to Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley.
Britain’s top police officer said the email constituted a “potential crime” in an interview with the ABC on Wednesday.
In the latest release of the Epstein files, Lord Mandelson was revealed to have confirmed the yet-to-be-announced €500bn bailout of the euro, leading to allegations that he had leaked sensitive government information.
“With former ambassador Peter Mandelson [to the US]”There is a private email about the bailout after the financial crash of 2008-09,” he said. “It appears to have been shared with Epstein. “We are looking at whether this is a crime or not.”
Sir Mark said the investigation into Lord Mandelson’s links to the disgraced financier and child sex offender would be conducted “without fear or favour”.
He added that the Met Police were also examining a “wide range of sexual allegations” against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to determine whether they merited a criminal investigation.
Earlier this week, it was reported that the commissioner had asked US ambassador Warren Stephens last month for all documents relating to his peer, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
“Of course, there’s a lot of this evidence in all these files in the United States, and at some stage we’re going to need the unredacted evidence,” he said in the new interview.
“We need the original copy and where it came from and that will be necessary if we get to the litigation stage.”
According to reports, Sir Mark is expected to push US officials even further during his visit to Washington this week.
All investigations would be conducted with full transparency and equality before the law he stressed, addressing concerns around the high-profiles of those who have been mentioned in the latest tranche of Epstein files released by the US department of justice.
Just because his name is mentioned in the files is not an indication of guilt.
“All of these investigations go wherever the evidence takes them; it’s pretty easy to investigate famous or powerful people,” he continued.
“I think it’s really important for the police force to do that, to act without fear or favour. The law applies equally to everyone, and these cases will go wherever the evidence, for example, takes us.”
It also shed light on four interviews with Virgina Giuffre, who claimed she was trafficked by Epstein in 2001 to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor. The former prince vehemently denied the allegations.
“We had four of these interviews with Virginia Guiffre… and they did not provide us with any allegations or evidence of sexual offenses or human trafficking that we could investigate in the UK,” Sir Mark continued.
“That’s why the investigation didn’t progress.” Ms. Giuffre died by suicide last year.
While police are investigating Lord Mandelson on suspicion of abuse of public office, Thames Valley Police are also carrying out a separate investigation into Mountbatten-Windsor for the same alleged offence.
The investigation into Mandelson concerns his relationship with Epstein while he was business secretary in Gordon Brown’s government. Before that, he served as European Trade Commissioner between 2004 and 2008.
Following the controversy, it was referred to the European Union’s anti-fraud agency last month.
Independent He contacted the Metropolitan Police and Lord Mandelson’s representative for comment.
