• OFFICIAL RECORD FD-1057 (12cv. 543-10) UNCLASSIFIED FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Electronic Communication Title: (U) Request case opening Date: 04/29/2020 From: SAN JUAN Contact: Approved By: SSRA Drafted By: Case ID #: 196D-SJ-3262541 (U) SOUTHERN TRUST; SOUTHERN COUNTRY INTERNATIONAL; Wire Fraud Synopsis: (U) To open an investigation into the transfer of $15,000,000 by Jeffrey Esptain after his death on 8/10/2019 into his defunct SOUTHERN COUNTRY INTERNATIONAL bank located in the US Virgin Islands. Details: FINANCIAL STRATEGY GROUP, LTD (FSG) submitted an application for a banking business license in the United States Virgin Islands through local attorney ERIKA KELLERHALS on 03/21/2013. JEFFREY EPSTEIN, DARREN INDYKE, and RICHARD KAHN were listed as the officers of the business with a $100,000 value at initial opening. The originally FINANCIAL STRATEGY GROUP, LTD maintained office space in the Port of Sale Mall in Havensite, but in 2015, FSG was renamed SOUTHERN COUNTRY INTERNATIONAL, LTD and designated as an International Banking Entity with a new address, , St. Thomas, VI 00802. The Lieutenant Governor's Office, Division of Banking, Insurance, and Financial Regulations issued the business license to SOUTHERN COUNTRY authorizing the bank to conduct business in the Virgin Islands beginning in 2015. EPSTEIN uses the above address for several companies licensed in the Virgin Islands. Many of these companies qualify for Economic Development UNCLASSIFIED EFTA00128637