A NORWEGIAN diplomat and key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords is facing corruption and blackmail allegations, after new documents revealed ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Terje Rod-Larsen, a central figure in the so-called Middle East peace process, has been implicated in newly released US Justice Department files. Norwegian media investigations have highlighted illicit loans, visa fraud for sex-trafficked women – and a beneficiary clause in Epstein’s will worth millions.

Exposes by NRK and Dagens Naeringsliv detail how Mr Rod-Larsen used his position as president of think tank the International Peace Institute to write visa recommendations for young Russian women with “extraordinary abilities.”

The women were often models with no academic background, allegedly trafficked and abused by Epstein.

Documents also show Epstein loaned Rod-Larsen $130,000 in 2013 – approximately £83,000 at the time.

And Epstein’s last will included a clause bequeathing $10 million to Mr Rod-Larsen’s two children.

Palestinian National Initiative general secretary Mustafa Barghouti said he was “not surprised at all” by the corruption allegations.

“We never felt comfortable with this person from the very first moment,” he told Al Jazeera.

“Oslo was a trap … and I have no doubt that Terje Rod-Larsen was being effectively influenced by the Israeli side all along.”

Mr Barghouti said the revelation of millions of dollars potentially flowing from Epstein to the Rod-Larsen family suggests the corruption was “directed to serve Israel’s interests against the interests of the Palestinian people.”

The documents revealed details of Epstein’s interactions with members of the global elite, including former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

But they also document his funding of Israeli groups, including Friends of the IDF and settler organisation the Jewish National Fund, as well as his ties to members of Israel’s overseas intelligence services, Mossad.

The scandal has reignited calls in Norway to open Mr Rod-Larsen’s “private archive” of the 1993 negotiations.

Media investigations have revealed that documents from the critical period between January and September 1993 are missing from the official Foreign Ministry archive.

Political analyst Wissam Afifa, in Gaza, said: “We, as Palestinians, were treated as minors … considered as having no right to demand our rights.

“Today we discover that a large part of the international system is essentially ‘Epstein Island’.”

Mr Afifa suggested that the “silence” of the international community regarding the current genocidal war on Gaza could be linked to similar networks of influence and extortion.