Madeira is mentioned three times in almost 3.5 million files of documents, images, and videos of the Jeffrey Epstein case. But only in an indirect way and not linked to the criminal activities of the American pedophile.
The reference concerns an email sent on the 17th of October 2010 to the American millionaire concerning the attempt to register the Internet address ‘Jeffreyepstein.com.’ This was prevented as the address had been previously registered by the company ‘Register.Com LP’, located in the Madeira Free Trade Zone and headquartered at Rua Dr. Brito Câmara. The sender of the message was Al Seckel, brother-in-law of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s lover and partner, with whom he was engaged at the time in an attempt to ‘clean’ the millionaire’s reputation online.
The second Madeira reference is related to another company in the Free Trade Zone, ‘Fratelli Cosulich Consultadoria e Participações Unipessoal, Lda,’ headquartered at Rua da Queimada but linked to an Italian shipowner of the same name. The document lodged in the Epstein archives concerns a dispute that the company had in an Alabama court in 2015. The document appears in the midst of other documents related to various companies that may be connected to Epstein’s investments.
The third Madeiran reference is said to be a mistake. It appears in several messages from Epstein’s assistants about air travel from the US to Europe, in which intermediate stopovers in the Azores are mentioned as taking place at the airport… of Funchal.
The latest Epstein files were released on the 30th of January by the U.S. Department of Justice. The files contain references to possible cases of sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and femicide. The documents are the result of the investigation into the consultant Jeffrey Epstein, convicted in 2008 for sex crimes. Epstein committed suicide in a prison cell in 2019, while awaiting trial on federal charges in the U.S. about sexual abuse of dozens of women, including minors.
Samantha Gannon
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