Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Polish angle of a possible human trafficking scheme linked to the US financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The probe is connected to the release by US authorities of millions of pages of documents linked to Epstein’s activities, which involved trafficking minors for sex and visits to Epstein’s island by high-profile businessmen and politicians.
According to Poland’s government-controlled public prosecution services, the documents that have been reviewed so far point to possible recruitment and trafficking of Polish women.
Human trafficking is punishable in Poland by up to 20 years in prison.
“On March 10, 2026 the National Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation into human trafficking committed between 2009 and August 2019 on the territory of Poland” stated the prosecution’s spokesman Przemysław Nowak on March 11.
He added that the suspected scheme involved recruiting “adult and minor female persons, including Polish citizens, by misleading them about the real nature of future employment abroad, organising their transport from Poland and handing them over to other persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation.”
The files contain multiple references to women from Poland, though so far there has been no evidence of any connections to Polish political elites.
The only Polish celebrity mentioned in the Epstein emails is former tennis player and art collector Wojciech Fibak, but the investigation launched by the prosecutors does not appear to involve him.
According to Polish government controlled broadcaster TVP World some emails in the Epstein files point to Warsaw as having been a transport hub for Epstein’s associates.
Emails released in the documents include references to Daniel Siad, described by lawyers for Epstein’s victims as a “scout of girls and/or women for Epstein”, who wrote in 2009 about travelling in small villages in Poland and other countries in the region in search of women.
Siad worked as a scout for Jean-Luc Brunel who owned a modelling agency set up with Epstein’s help and who committed suicide in 2022 after being indicted for sexual abuse of minors.
The files also reference two Poles who worked closely with Epstein for years.
One was Janusz Banasiak, a Polish national who managed Epstein’s Palm Beach residence in Florida for about two decades and later testified in court proceedings linked to the case.
Another was Polish model Adriana Mucińska Ross, who travelled on Epstein’s private jet and was named in a 2008 US case as a potential participant in a scheme involving the sexual exploitation of minors, though she was never charged.
Yesterday’s announcement came a month after the Polish government announced that it was setting up a working group at the ministry of justice to look at the possible involvement of Poles in Epstein’s activities.
