Barclays subpoenaed by U.S. Virgin
Islands over Epstein ties
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[November 06, 2021]
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Virgin Islands has asked British bank Barclays
to hand over information related to the late convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein, the bank said on Friday. |
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U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender
registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York
State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS/File
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Barclays received a subpoena in the United States from the U.S.
Virgin Islands in February, the bank confirmed.
"Barclays has already provided its response to this subpoena and
complied with its obligations. The USVI is now in the process of
serving a similar subpoena on Barclays in the U.K. and Barclays
will respond to that subpoena once it is served," a spokesman
for the lender said.
Barclays said Monday that Chief Executive Jes Staley was leaving
the bank after a dispute with British financial regulators over
how he described his ties with Epstein.
Epstein's estate was sued last year by the U.S. Virgin Islands,
which claimed that he raped and trafficked in dozens of young
women and girls on a private island in U.S. Virgin Island
territory.
(Reporting by Matt Scuffham; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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