The British Ghislaine Maxwell, partner of the late magnate Jeffrey
Epstein was transferred to a New York prison on Monday after being arrested the previous Thursday in New Hampshire (USA) for her alleged involvement. in the plot of sexual abuse of minors around the financier, who committed suicide in prison last year.
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According to the Department of Prisons, Maxwell is already in the Brooklyn Detention Center, so he remains in a different facility than that of
Epstein, the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center, who received a wave of criticism after the magnate took his life there in August 2019 before his trial, despite the high profile of his case.
Maxwell is accused by the New York Southern District Attorney’s Office of “helping” Epstein to “sexually exploit and abuse multiple” girls between 1994 and 1997, in addition to lying to the Justice on the matter.
A hearing of Maxwell’s case is expected to take place in Manhattan Federal Court later this week, as prosecutors have requested, seeking to argue that the British socialite she must remain detained until the trial is heldThey have rated their risk of flight as “extreme”.
In a document, the acting District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, said last Thursday that the accused has “three passports, large amounts of money, extensive international connections and absolutely no reason to stay in the US and face the possibility of a long sentence“.
(Read here: Andrew, the prince fallen from grace by Jeffrey Epstein)
Maxwell, a partner, close friend and ex-partner of Epstein, was arrested on July 2 at a luxurious property in the state of New Hampshire after staying for months unaccounted for.
The Prosecutor’s Office argues that it has “solid” evidence against the accused, with serious allegations of “multiple victims” backed by documents like flight records, newspaper entries or business cards, and that if found guilty she faces a maximum of 35 years in prison, which creates “an extraordinary incentive to elope.”
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Maxwell, a friend of Prince Andrew and in this image with Epstein, was described by one of the alleged victims as the “madam” of the sex trafficking operation.
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In addition to being a national of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, Maxwell has accumulated more than 20 million dollars in his bank accounts in recent years and was able to go unnoticed for months in Bradford (New Hampshire), on a property of 630,000 meters square bought in cash last December through a limited company.
The prosecutor further alleges that offering Maxwell home confinement with a tracking device would not mitigate the high risk of escape. “because it can be easily removed.”
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Epstein, who was arrested last year on charges of child sex trafficking, He committed suicide in August in a New York prison where he was admitted pending trial.
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