Among millions of newly released documents related to pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, several references to Bosnia and Herzegovina have also emerged. One email correspondence, in particular, has drawn attention.
Emails dating from August 2013 reveal a conversation between Epstein and an unidentified woman, in which Bosnia and Herzegovina is mentioned in connection with activities she carried out while working with an unnamed non-governmental organization (NGO).
In the first email, the woman complains that she did not get a job with a person referred to as “Steve”, most likely Steve Bannon, the former strategist of U.S. President Donald Trump, who was known to have close ties with Epstein.
Further correspondence reveals that the woman was actively involved in NGO work and that, as part of her engagement with the organization, she was staying in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In one of the emails, Epstein tells her that it is “his pleasure to pay her tuition”, but adds that she should “bring him a souvenir” whenever she travels outside the United States.
The woman responds at length, and it is in this particular email that Bosnia and Herzegovina is mentioned most frequently, specifically in relation to the fact that she did not bring him anything from her stay there.
“I had the whole summer to figure out a way to show you how grateful I am and how much I appreciate everything you do for me, and I shouldn’t have waited. Still, I couldn’t bring you anything from Bosnia because everything there revolves around food, but I’m still searching,” the unidentified woman wrote, suggesting that she was still in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time the email was sent.
As further stated in the email, she planned to summarize her trip in an authored article for one of the magazines.
“Yesterday I had a meeting with a magazine editor to discuss writing a column. I’m already writing about my trip to Bosnia for the magazine, and I’ll be sending a column proposal soon. We may also begin filming a feature-length film in August,” she wrote.
Another correspondence involving the same individuals, where Bosnia and Herzegovina is mentioned, dates back to June 2013. In those emails, the woman thanks Epstein for allowing her to stay in his apartment in New York.
“I don’t want to overstay my welcome, but if I could, I would stay forever. At the beginning of July, I’m heading to Germany to do some work as a model, and then I’ll be going to Bosnia with the NGO I work with,” she wrote.
Bosnia and Herzegovina appears sporadically in other emails, mostly in connection with subscriptions to U.S. media outlets held by Epstein. The only other notable reference to the country appears in email correspondence between Epstein and former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland, who replied to Epstein shortly before traveling to Sarajevo.
“I’m in Munich, about to board a flight to Sarajevo. The situation in Europe is terrible,” Jagland wrote in an email dated November 1, 2015.
On Friday, the US Ministry of Justice published more than three million pages of documents from the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, and Sana Alajmović, an entrepreneur of BiH origin, was mentioned several times among them.
The American magazine for biological sciences “BioSpace” included her in the list of ten leading young innovators, and she is also the director of the company Sigrid Therapeutics, which deals with the research of preparations for diabetes.
She left Bosnia and Herzegovina for Sweden with her family due to wartime circumstances.
In one of the correspondence recently published on the website of the US Department of Justice, it is stated, among other things:
“Dear Jeffrey, I am attaching the biographies and photos of some of the girls who will attend tomorrow’s brunch. They all studied at the Stockholm School of Economics and are between 23 and 28 years old. I will send you additional biographies as I receive them”.
In the next, he writes that he asks to inform Jeffrey that they are “excited because he is coming” and gives the address of the Kung Carl Hotel in Stockholm.
“We are sorry that you could not join us last Saturday, but I understand that you have a busy schedule. I wanted to ask if I have your permission to introduce you to Mr. Steven Burrill, the founder and CEO of Burrill & Company, a global life sciences company,” one of the emails states.
He notes that he has repeatedly spoken about the Jeffrey Epstein Foundation and is interested in supporting cutting-edge scientific research.
More detailed information is not known in these correspondences.
The documents were released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed after months of public and political pressure, which obliges authorities to open files on the late financier and his confidant and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
It is a large collection of materials collected by the US Department of Justice in investigations against Jeffrey Epstein and his network, the financier who was convicted of sexually abusing minors and charged with human trafficking before he died in prison in 2019.
