The former European Union envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajčák, has resigned from his position as advisor to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, after his communications with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became public.
Prime Minister Fico announced that he would accept Lajcak's resignation, while criticizing his opponents, whom, according to him, he had not seen "so much hypocrisy" in a long time.
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Letter to the Reader — Why We're Asking for Your Support Contribute"Miro has once again proven himself to be an excellent diplomat and I accept his offer to end our cooperation, although all of us, not just me, are losing an extraordinary source of experience in diplomacy and foreign policy. It is strange that a similar symbiosis of the media, opposition and government parties did not target opposition leader Simecek, who, through grant fraud at the Slovak and EU levels, represents a much greater risk to our country's reputation than the Prime Minister's advisor, Miroslav Lajcak," Fico said in a statement, the newspaper reports. Dnevnik N.
New court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were released in the United States on Friday, and among them is Lajcak's communication.
This is the largest set of documents about Epstein released to date, which includes about three million pages, 180 photographs and 2 video recordings.
Epstein, a millionaire known for his connections to numerous influential and famous figures, died in prison in 2019 while awaiting federal charges of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. His death was ruled a suicide.
