India, Feb. 23 -- Peter Mandelson, the former UK ambassador to the United States, has been arrested in London over his links to the late convicted sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. London's Metropolitan Police said that "a 72-year-old man" was arrested on suspicion of misconduct.

Mandelson's arrest over his alleged links with Jeffrey Epstein has put the life of his partner, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, into focus. The Epstein files recently released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act showed that not only Mandelson, da Silva also had close ties with Epstein and exchanged emails regularly.

In fact, the emails suggest that Reinaldo Avila da Silva received thousands of dollars from Epstein as a "loan" in 2009, supposedly for an osteopathy ...