Parliamentary watchdog throws a wide net, Epstein files hit Norwegian aid like a tsunami

News February 14, 2026 / By: Bjørn H Amland

The oversight committee of Norway’s parliament has called for an independent investigation into the extensive contacts between the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and high-level Norwegian former politicians and diplomats. The committee has sent the Foreign Ministry 28 questions which also target Norwegian aid financing of organisations, think tanks, and institutes that facilitate network building.

Report to the Department of Justice.jpg — In 2019, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry received a warning indicating that the International Peace Institute passed on photos of young Eastern European women to Epstein. A memo of the warning was referred to the Norwegian police and later sent to the US Department of Justice. (Facsimile from the Epstein files)