Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has flatly denied meeting or having any relationship with the late American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, insisting that his name was only on the guest list for a diplomatic event and that he never attended.
Egyptian journalist Ahmed Moussa revealed in the “About My Responsibility” program broadcast on the “Sada El Balad” channel that he called Abul Gheit directly to find out the truth about what was circulating in the past hours after his name appeared on one of the millions of pages related to the Epstein case published by the US Department of Justice.
Musa quoted Abul Gheit as saying that the name appeared in the context of the list of invitees to a diplomatic forum scheduled to be held on Sirbaniyas Island in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 during Abul Gheit’s time as Egypt’s foreign minister. The diplomatic forum included about 10 Arab foreign ministers.
According to Moussa’s report, Aboul Gheit admitted that he was not present at the forum in the first place, that he was not traveling to the Emirates for this purpose at the time, and that he therefore never met Jeffrey Epstein and that there is no photographic or physical evidence linking the two.
He added that he obtained lists of official invitees to diplomatic events and redistributed them or sent them to acquaintances in an attempt to suggest that Epstein had extensive ties and influence with Arab and international officials. This was the method used in some of Epstein’s most famous communications.
Mr. Ahmed Musa stressed that the information currently circulating lacks accuracy and that the talks were about the list of invitees, not personal meetings or direct relationships. He also criticized attempts by some to use the issue against Abul Gheit, pointing out that he is a veteran diplomat who has remained steadfast in his national position of defending Egypt and its interests for decades.
The controversy has been reignited recently after the US Department of Justice released a trove of documents and pages related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. It contained millions of pages of correspondence, lists, and records.
Ahmed Abul Gheit’s name was mentioned, along with a number of Arab and international figures, in a list of those invited to a diplomatic event in the Emirates in 2010, but the mention was limited to his being among the official invitees, and there was no evidence that he attended, was present, or met personally with Mr. Epstein.
