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Near Intelligence On Epstein Island

This company tagged everyone who came and went to the infamous pedophile paradise. Now, its top executives are charged in an unrelated accounting fraud.

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Al Lewis
Aug 08, 2025
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“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.” – Alexandre Dumas


Prosecutors on Thursday charged the top executives of a bankrupt location data broker called Near Intelligence in an alleged round-tripping scheme.

Overlooked in this genuinely stupid alleged accounting blunder is another set of round-trips we’d all like to know a lot more about.

Last year, Wired reported that Near Intelligence had collected precise data on more than 200 mobile phones belonging to wealthy and influential people visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s creepy island.

The data runs from July 2016 to July 6, 2019, the day Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking underaged girls. We can’t jump to too many conclusions, but the data does reveal the digital footprint of those who continued to visit the island even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida.

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Hey, all you billionaire perverts. If you’re going to Epstein Island, don’t bring your cell phones. (Illustration: Chat GPT)

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So far, the names associated with these devices have not been publicly disclosed, but as they say in the shadowy realm of grand conspiracies, the truth is out there.

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