Hundreds of emails containing photographs of young women from around the world suggest modelling scout Daniel Siad may have been a significant recruiter for convicted US sex offender JeffreyEpstein, according to public documents reviewed by AFP.
Siad, the subject of a rape complaint in France, claimed on X that he is blameless, but appears in more than 1,000 documents in the latest batch of declassified files from the Epstein case published by the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
They include exchanges between him and Epstein, which often revolve around women and are interspersed with apparent requests for money.
“In This busyness I feel like a fisherman some time I cache quick, some time no fish,” Siad wrote to Epstein in 2014 about women he had identified.
AFP has been unable to reach Siad since Monday, when he was first named in the French media in connection with the sprawling Epstein case.
Speaking to France’s national broadcaster France TV, Siad — who holds a Swedish passport, according to the documents, and said on X that he is from Algeria and born French — claimed Epstein had “used (his) trust”, adding he was not “in a position to know that this man was dangerous”.
“I have nothing to blame myself for,” he said in a video posted on X and relayed by BFMTV.
In the video, he denies any ties with Epstein’s crimes and presents himself as “from Kabylia (in Algeria), born French, and a Swedish citizen”.
Girls’ ages frequently mentionedA Swedish former model, Ebba Karlsson, filed a complaint inFranceon Tuesday accusing Siad of rape and human trafficking after recognising him in a photo from the Epstein files.
She says she was lured by Siad under the pretext of a career opportunity, before finding herself trapped in southern France in 1990 at the age of 20, AFP learned from a source close to the case.
Source: Insider Paper
