New Delhi: As Narendra Modi’s name surfaced in the latest Jeffrey Epstein files released by the US Justice Department, India swiftly rejected any suggestion of impropriety on the part of our Prime Minister.
“We have seen reports of an email message from the so-called Epstein files that has a reference to the Prime Minister and his visit to Israel,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated.
“Beyond the fact of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the allusions in the email are little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal, which deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt.”
Modi’s 2017 trip was the first time that an Indian Prime Minister had visited Israel since the two nations established full diplomatic relations in 1992.
On Friday, the Donald Trump administration released a vast tranche of records from its investigative files on American financier Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in prison in July 2019.
Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche said more than three million pages of documents were being released, along with over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
Published on the department’s website, the files include material that had been withheld during the initial release in December 2025.
