Polish investigators are asking their French colleagues for help in the investigation into the case of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, RMF FM radio reports.

It is specified that this concerns the investigation into the activities of Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and close associate of Epstein, who was accused of sexual abuse of minors and was found dead in a prison cell in 2022.

“Polish prosecutors sent the French a so-called European Investigation Order. The goal is to obtain from them records and evidence collected in the French investigation concerning Brunel and those who cooperated with him,” the report says.

Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office previously launched an investigation into cases of recruiting minors for sexual exploitation as part of the Epstein case. The country’s National Prosecutor’s Office reported in February that Justice Minister and Prosecutor General of Poland Waldemar Żurek had created a team to examine the “Polish traces” in the Epstein case.

In 2019, Epstein was charged in the United States with trafficking minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation; in July of that same year, he died in prison, and the investigation concluded that it was suicide. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on January 30 the completion of the publication of materials related to the Epstein case. The total volume of disclosed data exceeded 3.5 million files.