An Iranian Name Appears in the Epstein Case: Salar Kamangar, Former YouTube CEO

According to Khabaronline, citing a report by Zoomit, the appearance of the name of an Iranian individual—Salar Kamangar, former CEO of YouTube—in the Jeffrey Epstein files has drawn significant attention on social media.

Salar Kamangar (born in 1978 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American senior executive at Google and a former CEO of YouTube. He is known as Google’s ninth employee and played a key role in turning the company into a global technology giant. He joined Google at the age of 22, immediately after graduating from university, and is considered one of the creators of the Google AdWords advertising system.

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and hedge fund manager who became infamous for sexual crimes and for running a large-scale abuse network. He died in 2019.

Earlier this month, under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” the U.S. Department of Justice was required to release criminal investigation files related to Epstein. These newly released documents include the name of the former YouTube CEO.

Epstein began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan before entering the banking world at Bear Stearns. He later founded his own financial management firm and developed close ties with global political and economic elites.

He was connected to prominent figures such as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew (a member of the British royal family), relationships that sparked major political controversies.

Through financial donations to the MIT Media Lab, Epstein played a key role in launching the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) in 2015. This project emerged at a time when the Bitcoin Foundation was facing financial difficulties, and Epstein’s funding enabled MIT to pay core Bitcoin developers such as Gavin Andresen and Wladimir van der Laan.

Documents also show that Epstein hosted Bitcoin-related meetings at his luxury Manhattan residence. Attendees reportedly included figures such as Brock Pierce (one of the co-founders of Tether) and Larry Summers (former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury).