New Delhi: Documents from the seized devices of Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for trafficking minors, reveal communications with Indian businessman Anil Ambani spanning 2017 to 2019 – including discussions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a May 2019 meeting where Epstein met with someone he described as a representative sent by Modi during India’s election period.

The records, which include text messages and emails from Epstein’s iPhone, show Ambani seeking information from Epstein about Modi’s diplomatic visits and Epstein positioning himself as a connector between Indian interests and American political figures.

The most significant communications occurred in May 2019 – barely six weeks before Epstein’s arrest on federal charges of trafficking underage girls – as India’s general election results were being counted.

Between May 14 and May 20, Epstein and Ambani coordinated a meeting for May 23, the day results were announced showing Modi’s decisive re-election victory. 

On May 20, Epstein sent a message to Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, stating “modi sending someone to see me on thurs,” referring to Thursday, May 23. 

That Thursday afternoon, at 4.30 pm, Ambani arrived at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse at 9 East 71st Street, according to email confirmations from Ambani’s secretariat. That evening, at approximately 9.05 pm EDT, Epstein sent Ambani a message, “today was a treat, nice seeing you.” 

Less than an hour earlier, around 8.23 pm EDT, Epstein had sent a message to Bannon reporting on what he called a “really interesting modi meeting.” 

The Wire is unable to confirm whether Modi did indeed send “someone to see me”, as Epstein’s message says, and if so, whether that person was Anil Ambani or a third, as yet unidentified, individual.

According to the message, Epstein met with someone he referred to as Modi’s representative – “his guy.” In that message, Epstein wrote that this person said “no one in wash speaks to him,” referring to Modi, and that Modi’s “main enemy is CHINA! and their proxy in the region pakistan.” The message concluded that the representative said Modi “totally buys into your vision,” though it does not specify whose vision or what it entailed.

At the time, Bannon, though out of the White House since August 2017, had remained influential in conservative political circles as a vocal anti-China........

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