Norway’s parliamentary oversight committee agreed Tuesday to initiate a rare independent inquiry into the foreign ministry’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, as scrutiny intensifies over past ties to the late U.S. sex offender.
The release of a cache of new files in the U.S. has revealed a host of new Epstein connections with politicians, royals and the ultra-rich across Europe.
Norway's white-collar crimes police have opened an investigation into Thorbjoern Jagland, former prime minister and foreign minister and ex-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, on suspicion of aggravated corruption.
On Monday, police announced that Mona Juul, who on Sunday resigned as ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, was also being investigated for corruption. Her husband, former cabinet minister Terje Roed-Larsen, is suspected of complicity.
All three will cooperate with the respective investigations and see no merit in the accusations, their lawyers have said.
