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“Barclays has already provided its response to this subpoena and complied with its obligations,” a representative for the bank informed CNBC.
The Virgin Islands “is now in the process of serving a similar subpoena on Barclays in the UK and Barclays will respond to that subpoena once it is served,” the representative stated.
A spokesperson for the U.S. lawyer’s workplace for the district of the Virgin Islands did not instantly react to CNBC’s ask for discuss the subpoenas.
The Virgin Islands’ very first subpoena to Barclays looked for a variety of products associated with Epstein- connected accounts, consisting of deals and financial investments, CNBC discovered.
That subpoena likewise asked for interactions in between Epstein and Staley, who accepted step down from his function at Barclays after the business examined initial conclusions from an examination into his relationship with the dead sex wrongdoer.
Barclays is comprehended to have actually reacted to that subpoena and supplied files in April.
C.S. Venkatakrishnan, called Venkat, changed Staley as Barclays president since Monday, the bank stated in a declaration.
The probe, carried out by the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority, did not discover that Staley knew any supposed criminal offenses devoted by Epstein, the bank’s declaration kept in mind.
Epstein was jailed in July 2019 on kid sex trafficking charges however hanged himself a month later on in a Manhattan federal prison.
A previous good friend of ex-presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Epstein’s prolonged list of abundant and effective contacts has actually required a few of the world’s highest-profile elites to discuss their connections to him.
Microsoft creator and billionaire benefactor Bill Gates, for example, revealed remorse for the many conferences he had with Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre, among Epstein’s lots of supposed victims, has actually implicated Britain’s Prince Andrew of making love with her when she was minor after she had actually been hired by Epstein and his previous sweetheart GhislaineMaxwell The prince rejects the claims.
Maxwell, a British socialite, is waiting for trial on charges of apparently acquiring girls forEpstein She has actually pleaded innocent; her trial is set to startNov 29.
