British banker Simon Andriesz helped to expose alleged ties between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick
A top UK regulator has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistleblower – who highlighted alleged ties between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick – after he took his own life.
The British banker Simon Andriesz died late last month aged 57, the campaign group Transparency Task Force, of which he was a member, confirmed over the weekend.
Andriesz had formerly worked as a managing director at BGC Group, the financial brokerage where Lutnick had been chief executive. He had accused the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of failing to hold his former employer to account for alleged wrongdoing, and had been wrongly told he did not qualify for whistleblower protection.
The banker had spent years raising concerns about his former employer: first in regards to accounting irregularities – which he raised internally at BGC in 2016, a year before he was sacked – and then in 2020-21, when he reportedly told the FBI that Lutnick had undeclared business ties with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick has since said he had no “personal or professional relationship” with Epstein.
Andriesz, who had been living in Cornwall, later unearthed an email chain in the Epstein files that suggested Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a startup business they were both involved...
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