# Norway launches probe into 11 senior officials over Epstein links and grants

https://mins.news/en/item/80885

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-30 19:10 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/norway-launches-probe-into-11-senior-officials-over-us-epstein-files-links?traffic_source=rss

> Norway’s parliament is investigating 11 current and former senior ministers, including Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, over alleged connections to Jeffrey Epstein and more than 130 million kroner in Foreign Ministry grants to the International Peace Institute. Stoere denies wrongdoing and says the problems were isolated lapses rather than a systemic culture in the foreign service.

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