Norwegian police have searched properties belonging to former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland as part of a corruption investigation linked to his past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, turning one of the country’s most prominent international figures into the latest political name drawn into the widening legal aftershock of the US document release.
The searches in Oslo, carried out on Thursday, followed material published by the US Department of Justice in January indicating that Jagland and/or members of his family may have stayed at Epstein’s residences between 2011 and 2018. Television footage showed investigators removing boxes from the apartment, a visual marker of how far the case has moved from archival disclosures to a formal criminal probe.
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