(ANSA) – LONDON, 01 NOV – It is embarrassment in the City of London after its super banker, the ‘ceo’ of the British banking giant Barclays, Jes Staley, resigned following investigations by the financial authorities of the United his ties with the American Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile billionaire at the center of a sex scandal that involved many prominent figures at an international level, including Prince Andrew, thus casting a shadow on the image of the royal family.
Although Staley was unaware of Epstein’s criminal activity, as emerged from the preliminary results of the investigation into him, their economic relationships emerged. Staley had a business relationship with the financier in 2000 when he headed the private banking branch of JPMorgan. Epstein, a client of the US giant, had been convicted of instigating a minor in prostitution in 2008 and the former Barclays boss admitted to having maintained contact with the fixer for another seven years. This is a new backlash on the high British society, which comes a few days after the pronouncement of an American judge who has set the deadline for presenting Andrea’s sworn testimony on the allegations of sexual violence against him as July 14th. by Epstein’s victim, Virginia Giuffre Roberts, in a civil suit filed in the US. It could cause further embarrassment for the royal family if the witness were to coincide with the celebrations scheduled in June of the Platinum Jubilee for Elizabeth II, in which her 70 years of reign are celebrated. (HANDLE).
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