00:00When Norway's royal family travels, they are accompanied by the country's Secret Service, or the PST.
00:06You see them here alongside the nation's king.
00:08On Tuesday, the agency said it had launched an internal probe to determine if the latest release of the Epstein files
00:15had led to the illegal sharing of classified information.
00:19There is a very high threshold for PST to refuse to carry out an assignment.
00:24PST is supposed to protect democratic processes and political activity.
00:29The agency has been under growing pressure following revelations that Crown Princess Mehta Marit
00:34had extensive contact with a convicted sex offender from 2011 to 2014.
00:40It's just one scandal related to Epstein that has rocked Norway at the highest levels.
00:46Torbjörn Jokland is a former prime minister and foreign minister and ex-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee
00:52who is now under criminal investigation by Norway's white-collar crimes police.
00:56According to the Epstein files, he made plans to visit the infamous Epstein Island with his family in 2014.
01:03Mona Yule, who resigned as ambassador to Jordan and Iraq on Sunday, is now also facing a corruption probe,
01:10as is her husband, a former high-level diplomat.
01:13In a shocking twist, just two days before Epstein's death,
01:17the sex offender signed a will leaving the couple's children $10 million.
01:21And investigators want to know if it was a reward for professional favors.
01:25The context is, it's also a country that likes to regard itself,
01:29compared to most other countries in the world, relatively limited in terms of corruption.
01:35So, of course, this is really something that has come down as a shock.
01:39On Tuesday, Norway's parliament took the rare step to convene an external inquiry
01:43into how and why members of the country's foreign ministry
01:47had such intimate and ongoing contact with the convicted sex offender.
01:52On Tuesday, Norway's radioachelors doing sense as an economicissenschaft agradeck with the
01:58udaïnet.
02:00And some of the other countries everything worked for,
02:03in the context of lockdown many times has been said in the next several centuries.
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