Scotland Yard anti-corruption unit probes claims senior police officers took bribes from Mohamed Al-Fayed By Ian Gallagher Published: 23:42, 5 October 2024 | Updated: 23:42, 5 October 2024 e-mail View comments Scotland Yard is probing claims that police officers were bribed by Mohamed Al-Fayed . A Met detective is said to have accepted a suit from Harrods and cash in a white envelope, while a senior commander was allegedly given luxury hampers 'whenever he had been a particularly great help'. The detective was so useful to the Egyptian tycoon he was given a mobile phone to aid his illicit work, said a close Al-Fayed aide.
The Met said yesterday its review of claims about the late Harrods owner will involve liaising with its anti-corruption unit. The allegations form part of a 52-page statement from Bob Loftus, who worked under Harrods security chief John Macnamara, as part of a defence to a libel action pursued by Al-Fayed against Vanity Fair. It refers to a Portuguese nanny, Hermina da Silva, who was hired in 1994 and fired for rebuffing his advances.
Scotland Yard is probing claims that police officers were bribed by Mohamed Al-Fayed (pictured) The Met said yesterday its review of claims about the late Harrods owner will involve liaising with its anti-corruption unit (file photo of Scotland Yard) Al Fayed died last year at the age of 94. Pictured outside Harrods in 1998 'He's a very bad man and he mustn't get away with this,' she told a colleague. 'He tried to assault me.
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