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Met officers allegedly took hampers and cash bribes to help Fayed persecute staff
Exclusive: Scotland Yard faces claims corrupt officers helped Harrods owner quash potential complaints of abuse
Scotland Yard is facing claims that corrupt police officers helped Mohamed Al Fayed in persecuting members of his staff, including a young woman who allegedly rebuffed the Harrods owner’s sexual advances.
One detective constable, who is accused of regularly taking cash bribes to carry out Fayed’s wishes, was secretly given a mobile phone from Harrods to facilitate his illicit work, according to a former security chief at the luxury department store.
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