Epstein, the tycoon accused of sex trafficking of girls, offered $ 100 million to get out of prison

US tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, arrested for bad trafficking, has offered bail of $ 100 million, which will be released on bail and will go into house arrest, announced today. judicial sources.

The offer had been presented by Epstein's lawyers in federal court in New York at the first hearing to decide whether the bail should apply, but Judge Richard Berman said that It will take time until next Thursday to define the case.

"What the defendant asks, it is a special treatment to build his own prison, be limited to his own gold cage," said the prosecutor arguing his opposition to the granting of the bond, reported the EFE news agency.

The Crown also introduced two witnesses, who asked the judge not to demand bail and badured, without going into details, that they had been victims of badual abuse by Epstein at the age of 16 and 14 years old.

"Both defend the government's position of bail without bail.They believe not only that it is a risk of absconding, for obvious reasons, but also that it is the only way to ensure the security of the community and that they both have details of personal stories similar to many others. " other victims, "said one of the prosecutors, David Boeier.

Prosecutors reported that, in the Epstein residence in New York, they had found in a safe cash money, a dozen diamonds, photos of underage girls and a pbadport issued in another country in 1980, with the photo of the tycoon but with another. name and residence in Saudi Arabia.

The defense of the accused, who had been sentenced to 45 years in prison, asked the judge to authorize the house arrest and badured that his client was willing to pay bail of 100 million of dollars.

Epstein is locked up in Manhattan federal prison, one of the safest in the country. He arrived there on July 6, after being arrested after landing his plane in the neighboring state of New Jersey.

Epstein was charged with trafficking in minors for badual purposes by the Southern District Attorney's Office, which allegedly created a network to mistreat dozens of girls in his mansion in New York, as well as another in Florida there is more than ten years old.

The mogul had previously been charged with this type of crime in Florida, but in 2008 he had reached an informal agreement with the prosecutor's office allowing him to close an investigation that could have sentenced him to life imprisonment. with the victims.

The deal had been overseen by Miami attorney Alexander Acosta, who was later named Labor Secretary Donald Trump, and was forced to resign recently due to criticism after Epstein's second arrest.