{"id":38883,"date":"2026-03-26T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/38883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:01:11","slug":"french-prosecutors-search-paris-arm-of-swiss-bank-in-epstein-linked-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/38883\/","title":{"rendered":"French prosecutors search Paris arm of Swiss bank in Epstein-linked probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 French financial prosecutors said Tuesday that searches were carried out at several locations, including the Paris arm of Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild, as part of an investigation tied to revelations from the files on Jeffrey Epstein.<\/a><\/p>\n

France\u2019s national financial prosecutor\u2019s office said searches were carried out last Friday as part of a preliminary investigation opened last month<\/a>. Investigators are examining suspicions of bribery involving a foreign public official and complicity which concerns former French diplomat Fabrice Aidan.<\/p>\n

The investigation was opened after a referral from France\u2019s Foreign Ministry and follows revelations published in the Epstein files and subsequent reporting in France.<\/p>\n

The case is being handled by France\u2019s central office for combating corruption and tax and financial offenses.<\/p>\n

Aidan emerged as a focus of the French fallout from the release<\/a> of millions of U.S. Justice Department documents on Jan. 30. <\/p>\n

French investigative outlet Mediapart reported that the files suggested Aidan provided confidential U.N. material to Epstein. Aidan has denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Aidan\u2019s name reportedly appeared in over 200 documents, including emails sent to Jeffrey Epstein between 2010 and 2016 from personal and U.N. accounts, creating suspicions he shared diplomatic documents with Epstein. Aidan\u2019s lawyer has denied wrongdoing and called for respect for the presumption of innocence.<\/p>\n

Epstein, the disgraced U.S. financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide<\/a> in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

The files have already shaken prominent figures in France. <\/p>\n

Former Culture Minister Jack Lang resigned<\/a> in February as head of the Arab World Institute after prosecutors opened a preliminary tax fraud investigation following the release of Epstein-related documents in the United States.<\/p>\n

He was the highest-profile person in France hit by the latest disclosures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 French financial prosecutors said Tuesday that searches were carried out at several locations, including the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1241,1655,22249,1001,22603,2783,22244,1092,2543,69,41,17,5587,2746,7298,1046],"class_list":{"0":"post-38883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bribery","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-fabrice-aidan","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-france-government","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-jack-lang","15":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","16":"tag-paris","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-swiss","19":"tag-switzerland","20":"tag-switzerland-government","21":"tag-united-nations","22":"tag-washington-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116292778859270847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}