By Martin Pollard and Helen Rowe, AFP
Photo: AFP / Oli Scarff
British police on Tuesday (UK time) launched a criminal probe into the former UK ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, amid allegations he passed confidential information to late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The news came only hours after Mandelson resigned from the upper house of parliament, as the scandal over his ties to Epstein effectively ended his decades-long political career.
"The Metropolitan Police has now launched an investigation into a 72-year-old man, a former Government Minister, for misconduct in public office offences," Commander Ella Marriott, of the London-based force, said in a statement.
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