"Lang, 86, was summoned to appear at the French Foreign Ministry, which oversees the Arab World Institute, on Sunday, but he submitted his resignation. He "is very sad and deeply hurt to be leaving a position he loves," his lawyer Laurent Merlet said Sunday on RTL radio. "He put the interests of the Arab World Institute first," Merlet said, adding that his client denied the allegations and called them inaccurate. The Foreign Ministry confirmed his resignation Saturday evening."
"The financial prosecutors' office said it had opened an investigation into Lang and his daughter, Caroline, over alleged "aggravated tax fraud laundering." French investigative news website Mediapart reported last week on alleged financial and business ties between the Lang family and Jeffrey Epstein through an offshore company based in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea. Jack Lang's name was mentioned more than 600 times in the Epstein files, showing intermittent correspondence between 2012 and 2019. His daughter was also in the released files."
Jack Lang resigned as head of the Arab World Institute after being summoned by the French Foreign Ministry over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a tax investigation. The financial prosecutors' office opened an investigation into Lang and his daughter, Caroline, for alleged "aggravated tax fraud laundering." French investigative website Mediapart reported alleged financial and business ties between the Lang family and Epstein through an offshore company in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Jack Lang's name appears repeatedly in the released Epstein files, showing intermittent correspondence from 2012 to 2019; his daughter also appears. Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has begun the process to find a successor.
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