The late September death of a prominent British banking whistleblower has renewed interest on the expansive network of people connected to Jeffrey Epstein who have died, some under mysterious circumstances.
The latest death happened Sept. 23. Simon Andriesz, 57, a former British banker who exposed financial ties between Epstein and Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, was found dead in a town just outside of Bangkok, Thailand. His death was reported as “asphyxiation from hanging.”
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, has ordered a probe into how it handled the case after Andriesz complained in a post before his death — and in media interviews — that his findings were not being taken seriously in the U.S. and the U.K.
It’s not clear why he was in Bangkok since he was most recently living in Cornwall, England. But it comes just months after he wrote about the toll that going up against powerful people had taken on his life.
“The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation I say followed, have been devastating for my family and me,” Andriesz said in his last post on X, dated Aug 9.
His family has said he died by suicide. He indicated that he had been under enormous pressure, and not getting any support from the very governments and law enforcement authorities who were supposed to protect him as a whistleblower with key information about possible corruption.
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