What specific transactions and correspondent accounts do the Treasury SARs allegedly contain about Epstein's transfers to Russian banks?

Checked on January 30, 2026
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Executive summary

Unsealed reporting and congressional disclosures say Treasury-related suspicious activity reports (SARs) and bank filings flagged thousands of wire transfers tied to Jeffrey Epstein and named transfers routed to Russian banks—most prominently Alfa Bank and Sberbank—and that those transfers amount to hundreds of millions to more than $1 billion across multiple accounts [1] [2] [3]. What is not publicly available in the reporting assembled here are the granular correspondent-account numbers or full transactional rails: press reports and Senate letters describe destinations and volumes but the SARs themselves remain largely confidential [4] [5].

1. What the publicly reported SARs allegedly list: volumes, time span and named Russian banks

Multiple outlets reporting on newly unsealed court filings and Senate reviews say JPMorgan’s 2019 SAR flagged roughly 4,700 transactions between 2003 and 2019, totaling just over $1 billion (figures vary by reporting) and explicitly cited wire transfers to Russian banks including Alfa Bank and Sberbank [1] [3] [2]. Senator Ron Wyden’s review of a separate Treasury file described “hundreds of millions” in wire transfers routed through “several now-sanctioned Russian banks,” and congressional summaries repeat that Epstein used multiple Russian banking relationships to move funds [6] [7].

2. Types of transactions described in reporting: wires tied to payments, recipients and red flags

The public accounts say the SARs catalog a mix of inbound and outbound wire transfers—payments from wealthy figures, transfers identified as fees or proceeds from asset sales, and large repetitive disbursements to women with Eastern European surnames—that banks flagged because they matched patterns of structuring, unexplained purpose, or correlation with alleged trafficking activity [1] [8] [9]. Reporting says JPMorgan identified transactions that included payments to women from Russia, Belarus and Turkmenistan, and other banks’ later disclosures showed transfers described as tuition, rent or other cover explanations when compliance officers pressed for purpose [4] [2] [8].

3. What the SARs allegedly say about correspondent accounts and why specifics are missing

Press reporting and congressional letters repeatedly ask for the “correspondent bank account used (if applicable),” and demand dates, dollar amounts, senders/recipients and documented purposes for each suspicious wire—suggesting that the underlying SARs record correspondent-bank details to some degree [5]. However, the publicly available articles and committee statements do not publish specific correspondent-account numbers or full account identifiers; those elements remain in confidential Treasury files and in unredacted SARs not released to the public in the cited reporting [4] [5].

4. Banks’ and officials’ competing claims about what the SARs show

JPMorgan, and other banks named in reporting, say they filed SARs and reported suspicious activity—including transfers involving Russian banks—and that those filings complied with rules, while some bank spokespeople and lawyers have disputed that transfers were criminal in nature or have argued the transactions were lawful business activity [10] [3]. Senators and investigators counter that the timing and content of filings—some filed only after Epstein’s 2019 arrest—raise questions about delayed compliance and possible lost investigative leads [7] [11].

5. Bottom line and limits of confirmation

The open reporting converges on these points: the Treasury-related SARs and bank filings identify thousands of wire transfers over many years involving Epstein, explicitly name at least Alfa Bank and Sberbank as recipient institutions, and assert hundreds of millions to roughly $1 billion-plus in movements tied to those accounts or to accounts linked with Russian banks [1] [3] [6]. What cannot be confirmed from the sources provided here is the SAR-level granularity—the precise transaction dates for each Russia-directed wire, the exact dollar amount for each individual transfer to Russian correspondent accounts, or the correspondent-account numbers themselves—because those details remain redacted or confined to Treasury files and congressional requests not publicly released in the cited reporting [4] [5].

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