Jes Staley joined Barclays as CEO in 2015 and has held the position until November 2021. Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
Former Barclays chief executive discussed 'human trafficking' allegations with Jeffrey Epstein while the late pedophile financier was a client of JP Morgan, new court documents allege.
Jes Staley, who previously ran a private company at the Wall Street giant bank, discussed the allegations with Epstein in 2011 and was told «the allegations are not true,» according to an amended complaint filed in a New York court.
< p>The lawsuit alleges that Mr. Staley assured JP Morgan employees that Epstein said there was no evidence of his alleged activities and that he «did not expect any problems.» the wealth management division, admitted in a recent testimony that by 2006 the bank was aware that «Epstein was accused of paying cash to have underage girls and young women brought to his home.»
The new charges came to light as part of a revised US Virgin Islands document that accused JP Morgan of profiting from Mr. Epstein's sex trafficking while he was a bank client until 2013.
Mr. Staley does not appear as a defendant in the lawsuit. He has repeatedly denied knowledge of Epstein's sexual harassment.
In his first court papers last week, Mr. Staley called the allegations against him «defamatory and baseless.»
JP Morgan was suspicious. Epstein, years before he was convicted of child sex use in 2008, according to the new document.
Compliance staff urged the bank to sever ties with the financier as -over allegations of sex trafficking and money laundering concerns.
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In 2011, a senior JP Morgan compliance officer allegedly asked Epstein to be expelled him as a client, but noted that he is «an alleged personal partner of Investment Bank CEO [Jess Staley].»
Separately, JP Morgan is suing Mr. Staley over his relationship with Mr. Epstein and is demanding that he return more than $80m (£67m) he received between 2006 and 2013.
A JP Morgan spokesman declined to comment. in the last serve.
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