Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein engaged in a sequence of mysterious high-greenback transactions suggesting the pair had been fiscally interwoven, according to federal prosecutors.

The two shifted $20 million back and forth amongst their lender accounts about a time period of five several years beginning in 2007, according to a memo from US attorneys arguing Maxwell’s fiscal resources designed her a flight threat and she should really be held devoid of bail.

“There may perhaps be a fully harmless explanation for it, but it surely is a sinister details issue,” Duncan Levin, a former Brooklyn federal prosecutor, informed CNN of the dollars transactions among Maxwell and Epstein.

Maxwell was arrested Thursday on expenses of procuring and grooming underage ladies she and Epstein allegedly abused. The arrest followed a months-long investigation that led federal law enforcement to a chalet in the New Hampshire woods where by Maxwell had been hiding out.

Maxwell allegedly kept a labyrinth of 15 banking institutions accounts, which were being at a person place valued at a lot more than $20 million, investigators identified, describing the British socialite’s economic standing as “opaque and indeterminate,” The New York Occasions reported.

The supply of Epstein’s prosperity has long been a thriller. He claimed to deal with cash for his billionaire good friends, but has only just one acknowledged customer — Victoria’s Secret founder Leslie Wexner, who has stated he minimize ties with Epstein a long time back.

Maxwell claimed the two were so monetarily linked she need to have legal rights to his estate in the Virgin Islands, in accordance to a civil accommodate she field there adhering to his August death. In court papers, she claimed Epstein vowed to always support her. 

The transactions manufactured amongst 2007 and 2011 recommend “they experienced a pretty close organization marriage and that he obviously trusted her with a phenomenal sum of dollars,” Levin reported.