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Thorbjorn Jagland in serious condition...
Former Norwegian Prime Minister and former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, is in hospital after a suicide attempt. Norwegian media have confirmed the news, while authorities have not provided further details about his health condition.
The incident comes as Norwegian police are investigating Jagland on suspicion of corruption over his past dealings with American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested in 2019 on charges of trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors and was found dead in his New York prison cell in what US authorities have classified as a suicide.
According to the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG), which refers to documents published by the US Department of Justice, Jagland allegedly asked Epstein to help guarantee the purchase of an apartment. The documents do not clarify whether this request was carried out. The same sources report that Jagland visited Epstein's New York residence in 2018, as well as his apartment in Paris in 2015 and 2018. It is also mentioned that he and his family had planned a trip to Epstein's private island in 2014, but the visit did not take place.
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Norway's former Prime Minister and ex-chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjørn Jagland has reportedly been hospitalized after a suicide attempt.
The Norwegian police recently launched an investigation against him in connection with the Epstein Files. pic.twitter.com/SgaBhdmWgq
The documents made public in the US also mention communications related to a visit to Tirana. According to these materials, after a stay in Albania in 2012, at the time when the country held the rotating chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Epstein sent him an email mentioning his impressions of the visit. One of the communications mentions the “extraordinary girls of Tirana”, a reference that emerges from the archive of messages seized by the US authorities.
Thorbjorn Jagland, 75, was Prime Minister of Norway from 1996 to 1997. He chaired the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee from 2009 to 2015 and served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 2009 to 2019.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute has asked Jagland for an official explanation of any possible financial benefits he received during his time as head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. The institute's director, Kristian Berg Harpviken, has stated that any significant undeclared financial transactions would constitute a violation of the institution's ethical rules.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry has announced that it will ask the Council of Europe to lift Jagland's diplomatic immunity, which he enjoys as the organization's former Secretary General, to facilitate investigative procedures.
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