France investigates ex-minister Jack Lang over Epstein links

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Financial crime prosecutors in France say they have opened a preliminary inquiry into former Culture Minister Jack Lang over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Lang, a major figure in French socialist governments between the 1980s and 2000s, is being investigated for suspected "laundering of tax fraud proceeds".
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Lang's daughter Caroline, 64, is also being investigated in the case. Earlier this week she stepped down as head of a French film producers' union.

Former French minister Lang is named almost 700 times in the Epstein files and has so far resisted pressure to step down as president of the Arab World Institute.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkrk567d7zo

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Introduced to Epstein by ... Woody Allen.

[orangecrush]

1. The Epstein files are a road map

For dismantling the Putin - Trump crime syndicate

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I wouldn't think Lang had anything to do with Trump or Putin

It sounds more like fraud and/or tax evasion. The Allen connection might point to crimes against children too, but not, I'd think, in conjunction with Trump.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Veteran French politician quits as head of prestigious institute after Epstein links revealed

Jack Lang, a former French culture minister, has resigned as head of Paris’s prestigious Arab World Institute after revelations of his past contacts with the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the launch of a financial investigation by French prosecutors.

Lang, 86, resigned on Saturday night before he was due to attend an urgent meeting called by the French foreign ministry to discuss his links to Epstein.
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Caroline Lang resigned this week from France’s Union of Independent Producers after the emails showed she had founded an offshore company with Epstein in 2016 to invest in the work of young artists. She said she had resigned from that offshore company when further allegations were made against Epstein in 2019. She denied any wrongdoing.

Caroline Lang also appeared in Epstein’s will as a beneficiary of €5m, according to the French investigative website Mediapart. She told the French public broadcaster France 2 this week that she had never heard of the will and had never seen any such document or received any funds.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/07/veteran-french-politician-quits-as-head-of-prestigious-institute-after-epstein-links-revealed