Jack Lang in Paris on January 4, 2018. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
France's financial crimes prosecutors told AFP on Friday, February 6, that they had opened a preliminary investigation into influential former minister Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline after revelations in the Epstein files. The pair will be investigated for "laundering of aggravated tax-fraud proceeds" over their suspected financial ties with late US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the office said.
Lang, a prominent figure who has held a series of ministerial roles in previous governments, is facing pressure to resign from his current post as head of a leading French cultural institute over his links to Epstein. France's foreign minister said Friday he had summoned the 86-year-old ex-minister to a weekend meeting.
Lang is the most high-profile French figure caught up in the latest US release of documents linked to the financier, who killed himself in 2019 while in prison facing charges of sex trafficking underage girls. A mere mention in the files does not imply wrongdoing.
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