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INSIGHT: How UBS helped Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell buy her hideout

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The property where Ghislaine Maxwell, former associate of late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen in an aerial photograph in Bradford, New Hampshire, U.S. July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base/File Photo

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By Tom Sims, Naomi Rovnick, John O’Donnell and Lawrence White

IN rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156‑acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.

Behind the cash purchase of the $1.1 million home in December 2019 were funds sent by Swiss banking giant UBS on Maxwell’s ​behalf a month earlier, documents in a cache of files released by the Department of Justice related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein show. The money then cascaded through a web of trusts and banks to buy the secluded property as she sought to go into hiding.

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