Operation Saving Soldier Wade: How Epstein Got Inside Rebeuss Prison

Karim Wade was arrested April 15, 2013. By August he was in Rebeuss, Dakar's main detention facility, facing charges of illicitly accumulating $240 million. Epstein's first move was to find a way in.

He didn't contact the prison. He called a contact who appears in the emails as "Ute Bourgi." Epstein's request was simple: Nina Keita, Ouattara's niece, wants to visit Wade. Can she?

Rasseck came back with the procedure. She needed authorization from the judge. The lawyers to contact were Maître Seydou Diagne or Maître Demba Bathily. Epstein forwarded it to Nina. She replied the next morning: "Thank you Jeffrey!! I'll contact them tomorrow."

Five months later Epstein was talking to Diagne directly. "karim asked that we connect" (EFTA01945668-0). They moved to Viber. By May 2014, Diagne sent his bank details: Attijariwafa Bank, Dakar, routing through Casablanca (EFTA01927653-0). Epstein told a contact: "I sent it twice" (EFTA01924121-0). A redacted sender had written asking whether Epstein "was able to do the transaction." Diagne confirmed receipt with a voucher (EFTA02705431-0).

Epstein had known Wade for less than three years. He had introduced him to the Gates Foundation and Sultan Bin Sulayem. He was now paying his criminal defense lawyers through a Moroccan bank routing, coordinated through an Ivorian presidential niece.