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Malaysia’s Anwar brushes off Epstein speculation with queasy emoji post
Anwar Ibrahim has rubbished an old email describing him as a potential ‘gold mine’, insisting he had no connection to the US sex offender
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Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has sought to douse public speculation after his name appeared in a newly released email exchange involving Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted US sex offender whose web of connections to the rich and powerful remains a source of scandal years after his death.
Anwar was among several world figures – including India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, billionaire Bill Gates and Britain’s disgraced former prince Andrew – mentioned in a tranche of Epstein-related material released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
The release, authorised by a law US President Donald Trump signed in November, comprised more than 3 million additional pages of information and included over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, with all victim-identifying details redacted.
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On Sunday, Anwar addressed the reference in a lighthearted yet pointed social media post, saying his name had merely been “dropped” into the email exchange, which dated to 2012.
“Thank God, it’s been more than a decade as mentioned in the email, and I have absolutely no connection with any of the parties exchanging those emails, especially Epstein,” he wrote, adding two nauseated face emojis to underline his disgust.
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