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Police in Surrey, the county immediately southwest of London,
said in a statement Tuesday that they are investigating two
separate allegations. One relates to locations in Surrey and
Berkshire in the mid-1990s to 2000. The other relates to the
mid- to late 1980s in West Surrey.
No arrests have been made.
“We take all reports of sexual offending seriously and will work
to identify any reasonable lines of enquiry to verify
information or establish corroborating evidence,’’ police said
in a statement.
Surrey is among several U.K. police forces that have worked
together to assess potential crimes revealed in documents linked
to the late financier and sex offender. The National Police
Chiefs’ Council, which brings together police leaders from
across the U.K., said in February that it had set up a national
coordination group to support forces looking into issues arising
from the more than 3 million pages of documents released earlier
this year.
While the council didn’t specify the police forces involved in
the effort, at least eight have said they are “assessing”
information in the files. They are looking into issues ranging
from concerns that Epstein’s private jet may have been used in
sex trafficking to allegations that the former Prince Andrew
sent confidential reports to the financier when he was Britain’s
international trade envoy.
The Epstein scandal has rocked the royal family and British
politics in recent months because of his links to Peter
Mandelson, the U.K.’s former ambassador to Washington, and to
the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
King Charles III in October stripped his younger brother of his
royal titles, including the right to be called a prince, in an
effort to insulate the royal family from the continuing
revelations about his friendship with Epstein.
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