The Norwegian Parliament’s disciplinary committee has postponed a hearing on Norwegians’ ties to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The postponement follows the suicide last week of the son of two former top Norwegian diplomats who face corruption charges tied to their own relations with Epstein.
Former Norwegian ambassador Mona Juul and her husband Terje Rød-Larsen confirmed through lawyers last week that their 25-year-old son had committed suicide. He and his twin sister had emerged as heirs to Epstein after extensive FBI files in the US were released earlier this year.
The files revealed that Epstein had willed both of them large amounts of money, and had also helped the son with university advice and finding work. Epstein’s involvement with the family was dominated by his longtime involvement with the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York that Rød-Larsen ran, and the entire family had spent holidays on his island in the Caribbean.
Parliamentary leaders have lots of questions for Juul, Rød-Larsen and many other Norwegians tied to Epstein but they’re delaying their hearing after what many call the “tragedy” within the Juul- and Rød-Larsen family. “It was correct for the committee to postpone the hearing out of personal consideration,” said MP Jonas Andersen Sayed of the Christian Democrats Party. “At the same time, the seriousness of the case remains: Facts must be put on the table and we must clean up and retain control over state funding.” Rød-Larsen’s IPI received millions in state funding over the years.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
