Newly released congressional documents show that pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein chatted with the former boss of the Council of Europe about making contact with senior Russian officials.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote to Thorbjørn Jagland, who was the human rights organization’s secretary-general at the time, in a June 24, 2018 email.

Putin and Lavrov were, and remain, Russia’s president and foreign minister, respectively. Jagland replied that he would meet Lavrov’s assistant the following day and would suggest a connection with Epstein. “Thank you fo a lovely evening. I’ll com to un high level week,” Jagland told Epstein in a missive riddled with spelling mistakes.

It is unclear whether any meeting or follow-up discussion ever took place.

In the same exchange, Epstein referenced previous conversations he had with Russia’s former U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who died in 2017. “Churkin was great,” Epstein wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

Jagland could not be reached for comment. The Council of Europe declined to comment. Epstein died in prison in August 2019.

A former Norwegian prime minister and longtime Labor Party politician, Jagland also served as Oslo’s foreign minister and later led the Council of Europe as secretary-general from 2009 to 2019.

The Strasbourg-based Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights organization, and oversees the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

In 2019, Jagland opposed Russia’s potential withdrawal from the body amid disputes over Ukraine’s Crimea, warning it would be a “huge setback” for human rights by depriving 144 million Russians of the right to seek legal redress at the ECHR.

The Epstein emails, among the thousands of pages of documents released Wednesday by the U.S. House Oversight Committee, provide new insight into the convicted sex offender’s extensive network of political and business contacts, and his apparent efforts to influence or advise foreign governments during Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president.

In some messages, Epstein claimed he had been advising Russian officials on better understanding Trump’s approach to diplomacy and negotiation.

The emails add to evidence illustrating Epstein’s attempts to maintain access to international political figures well after his 2008 conviction for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution until shortly before his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing Wednesday that the broader set of emails “prove absolutely nothing other than President Trump did nothing wrong” — while Trump accused the opposition Democrats of “trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax” to “deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown.”