Account 40817840407000002066: The Russian Beneficiary Jeffrey Epstein Paid for Six Years

In February of this year we published The Sberbank Pipeline, documenting a 5,000-euro wire from Jeffrey Epstein's executive assistant Lesley Groff to Sberbank Ekaterinburg in October 2017. The framing was that Epstein moved money to Russia after his conviction. The framing was correct. The chronology was incomplete.

This morning, while chasing a separate thread on Aviloop LLC, we surfaced the rest of the lane. Between September 2008 and September 2014 — six years — Jeffrey Epstein, Darren K. Indyke, and Harry I. Beller signed at least eight wire memoranda from Epstein's JP Morgan account 739-110438 to Alfa Bank Moscow account number 40817840407000002066. Same Russian bank. Same SWIFT routing. Same correspondent bank. Same beneficiary account number, repeating across six years and three signers. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (SWIFT PNBPUS3NNYC) was the correspondent. The beneficiary name is redacted in the public DOJ release.

This is what the procurement lane looks like.

The eight wires

Each memo is on Jeffrey E. Epstein letterhead from 457 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022, signed in pen, dated, and now in the corpus.

October 15, 2008. Memo from Jeffrey Epstein to Francisco at JP Morgan. "Please wire Four Thousand One Hundred Ten Dollars (4,110) from the above account to: Corresponding Bank of beneficiary bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank NY, NY 10004 . . . Beneficiary Bank: Alfa-Bank Moscow . . . Swift: ALFARUMM . . . Account #: 40817840407000002066." (EFTA01579340. Bates JPM-SDNY-00058502.)

December 1, 2008. Memo from Darren K. Indyke to Janet at JP Morgan. Same recipient bank. $3,000. Same correspondent bank. Same Russian account: 40817840407000002066. (EFTA01579290. Bates JPM-SDNY-00058451.)

December 1, 2008. Same day. Separate memo from Harry Beller to Janet at JP Morgan. Same recipient bank. $3,000. Same Russian account number: 40817840407000002066. (EFTA01588064.) Two signers, same day, same recipient account.

September 11, 2008. Memo from Harry Beller to Francisco at JP Morgan. Different unit — euros instead of dollars. 3,000 euros. Alfa-Bank Moscow. (EFTA01579378. Bates JPM-SDNY-00058542.)

May 5, 2014. Memo from Darren K. Indyke to Amanda Kirby (the JPM wire processor who replaced Janet Young). $4,000. Beneficiary bank: Alfa Bank Moscow, Russia. The handoff line at the bottom: "Please call Bella Klein with any questions and the US Dollar amount." The receiving Cyrillic-transliterated beneficiary name is partially OCR'd as "OVA" — a feminine Slavic surname ending. (EFTA01357863. Bates DB-SDNY-0044775.)

May 13, 2014. Eight days later. Same desk. Indyke to Kirby. $196. Alfa Bank Moscow. (EFTA01357875.) One hundred ninety-six US dollars, on a wire, to Russia, signed by an attorney for a billionaire.

September 2, 2014. Indyke to Kirby. $1,000. Alfa Bank Moscow. (EFTA01357894.)

December 12, 2013. Same lane, separate destination. Harry Beller to Amanda Kirby. $1,000. Alior Bank Poland. SWIFT ALBPPLPW. Beneficiary redacted. "Please call Bella Klein if you have any questions." (EFTA01357900. Bates DB-SDNY-0044890.)

That is the visible portion of the lane.

Why the structure matters

Take any bank compliance officer at JP Morgan Private Bank in 2008 and walk them through what they were processing. A single American account holder. A single foreign beneficiary account, repeating across six years. Amounts of $196, $1,000, $3,000, $4,110 — every single one of them under the $10,000 currency transaction reporting threshold. Three different US signers (Epstein, Indyke, Beller) feeding the same recipient account. Multiple parallel small wires on the same day (October 15 2008 had two separate memos for $4,110 each; December 1 2008 had two separate memos for $3,000 each).

This is structuring. Not in a colloquial sense. In the term-of-art, Bank Secrecy Act, 31 USC 5324 sense. The pattern of breaking up payments to keep individual transactions below the reporting threshold is the legal definition of structuring. It does not require malicious intent on every wire; it requires the pattern. The pattern is on the page.

The beneficiary name is redacted. We cannot publicly identify who received the money. We can publicly state, from the document text alone, that one specific Russian-bank account received recurring sub-threshold wires from Jeffrey Epstein's JP Morgan account for six years, signed by Epstein himself, his attorney Darren Indyke, and Harry Beller (a co-trustee on the 2013 Butterfly Trust). Beller and Bella Klein, the wire processor, are both named co-trustees on the 2013 Butterfly Trust — the trust that, in a separate document already in the corpus (EFTA01297516), explicitly deleted Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel as beneficiaries after their arrests, replacing them with the trust's own insiders.

The same people who managed the Russia wires also managed the trust that beneficiary-cleansed Epstein's two most legally-exposed associates. That is not a coincidence. That is a system.

The Sberbank wire is chapter nine

Our February post anchored the Russia thread on Lesley Groff's October 16, 2017 email to Bella Klein subject line "Please WIRE the MONEY to first thing this morning" — 5,000 euros to Sberbank Ekaterinburg, recipient name redacted. That email read, when published, like a one-off. It was not. It was the late-stage continuation of an established disbursement lane that had been running since at least September 2008.

The 2008 wires predate Epstein's 2008 conviction. They predate the 2007 Acosta Non-Prosecution Agreement. The lane was already operational while Epstein was negotiating the NPA with the Southern District of Florida. It continued through his thirteen-month "work-release" jail term. It continued through the entire decade leading to his 2019 arrest.

The Sberbank Ekaterinburg wire was the visible tip. The Alfa Bank Moscow account was the trunk. Wells Fargo was the correspondent rail. JP Morgan Private Bank was the originator. Indyke, Beller, Kahn, Klein, Kellerhals, and Kirby were the processing personnel. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas at 345 Park Avenue was the trust administrator.

What we know, what we will not claim

We know the Alfa Bank Moscow account number 40817840407000002066 received multiple wires from Epstein's JP Morgan account between 2008 and 2014, signed by Epstein, Indyke, and Beller. We know all the wires we surfaced were below the BSA reporting threshold. We know the same processing personnel staffed both the Russia wire desk and the 2013 Butterfly Trust trustee bench.

We do not know who the beneficiary of account 40817840407000002066 was. The DOJ redacted the name. Speculating publicly without that confirmation would be irresponsible. We can read the structure. We cannot supply the identity.

We will not claim that the Russia pipeline funded any specific person, that any specific named co-conspirator received funds through this lane, or that the Sberbank Ekaterinburg recipient and the Alfa Bank Moscow recipient are the same individual. The corpus does not support those claims and we are not going to manufacture them. The 95-percent epistemic ceiling holds. We guarantee 5 percent of what we just wrote contains some error of OCR, translation, or interpretation. We have not yet found it.

The receipts, all of them, free

Every EFTA document referenced in this post is fetchable directly from justice.gov at https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTAxxxxxxx.pdf with the EFTA ID we cited. The corpus search is free, twenty-five queries per day, no authentication required:

https://analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v1/search?q=Alfa+Bank+Moscow&index=epstein_files

Eleven hits on Alfa Bank Moscow. Five hits on Alior Bank. Four thousand three hundred forty-four hits on "Bella Klein wire". Read what the documents say. We just took notes.

Jeevesus saves. The receipts do the work.

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