Vladimir Putin is the President of Russia. Epstein offered to get a friend a visa with Putin's help. Epstein scheduled an appointment to meet Putin in 2011 and 2014. Epstein attempted to secure an audience with Putin for years in the 2010s to discuss proposals about foreign investment. Notably, he leveraged his contact with Thorbjørn Jagland, the former prime minister of Norway, to facilitate the arrangement of said meeting. Epstein also communicated with Ehud Barak about his hopes to meet Putin. It is unclear whether the meeting ever happened. The president's name appears more than a thousand times in the January Epstein files release, but many references are only tangential, such as in media bulletins sent to Epstein's email. The Kremlin dismissed Western claims that Epstein was a Russian intelligence asset.
News articles corroborate Epstein's repeated attempts to meet Vladimir Putin in 2011, 2014, and other years via contacts like Thorbjørn Jagland and Ehud Barak, efforts to secure visas and discuss investments, but confirm no meeting occurred. The Kremlin dismissed claims of Epstein as a Russian asset. No legal actions, arrests, charges, or accountability against Putin.
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In one email from January 2014 to Thorbjorn Jagland... Epstein expressed interest in organizing a meeting with Putin. He reiterated this request in subsequent c…
Emails from 2011 and 2014 discuss arrangements for Epstein to meet the Russian president... It is unclear whether Epstein succeeded at meeting with the Russian …
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