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| write further to an email sent to you earlier this month, concerning an article we are preparing for
publication in which you may be mentioned.
We have not received a response from you. If you wish to respond, please do so as soon as possible and no
later than 18:00 on Monday 2nd February 2015.
For your convenience, please see the original letter below,.
Yours faithfully,
David Pegg
The Guardian
Kings Place
90 York Way
London
N1 9GU
On 5 January 2015 at 11:14, David Pegg fii wrote:
Swiss Accounts Survey
Dear Mr Epstein,
We are writing because a US media organisation, in concert with ourselves at the Guardian newspaper in
London, is currently conducting a detailed survey of Swiss bank accounts, past and present.
It is not illegal to have Swiss accounts. But as you may know, it is a topic of considerable public debate, and
several governments have been investigating the owners of such accounts.
There are a number of ways such accounts and also offshore trusts have been used to avoid inheritance tax,
UK domestic tax, or tax imposed by other countries. Such accounts have also been used to launder money.
We have seen records held in the US identifying you among those who have held accounts. These accounts
contained assets of up to USD 3.5m, and include:
HSBC (Suisse) SA
FAMILY INTEREST L.P.
22079
BESSIE
JEFFREY EPSTEIN
1) You may therefore have been a person evading or avoiding tax, or laundering money.
We will be particularly concerned with these questions:
2) Why you had Swiss accounts.
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