Report: How Epstein, ex-Israeli PM exploited Nigeria insurgency to push surveillance, oil deals

Jeffrey Epstein/2011 police mug shot

Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and child sex offender, worked with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to profit from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, a Drop Site News (DSN) investigation relays.

Email exchanges released by the US Justice Department from 2018 showed how Epstein facilitated talks between Jide Zeitlin, then-chair of Nigeria’s Sovereign Investment Fund; and Sultan Ahmad bin Sulayem, former chairman of DP World, a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based logistics giant.

Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019.

PROPOSED OIL DEALS

Part of the talks were centred on how Zeitlin could wield his influence in Nigeria to help Sulayem secure possible shipping terminals in Lagos and Badagry after talks with previous Nigerian presidents, since 2005, had led nowhere.

DP World was reluctant to invest in an industrial zone in Nigeria unless they could own the surrounding port outright.

Sulayem resigned from DP World on February 13 after his relationship with Epstein became public knowledge.

Epstein corresponded almost daily with Barak who worked tirelessly to grow an Israeli-Nigeria security relationship.

Epstein quietly began helping Barak leverage his security ties in Nigeria to set up energy investments for his friends in Israel — after Barak resigned as Israeli defence minister in 2013.

SPY TECH

Epstein explored other ways of penetrating Nigeria.

“We should think about the growing emerging role of cards and phones in economic exchange and the future of money,” Barnaby Marsh, an investment advisor and friend of Epstein, told him after the financier sent a snippet of “” to him.