Police are investigating astonishing claims that corrupt detectives working for Mohamed Al Fayed deceived one of his victims by staging an elaborate ruse involving a bogus MI5 officer and a bugged flat.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal the woman was urgently summoned to Scotland Yard on the pretext of a 'national security' matter.
Once there, the rogue detectives told her the security services needed to install covert surveillance equipment inside her London home and, she says, ordered her to sign what they claimed was the Official Secrets Act.
The detectives then instructed her to give her flat keys to an 'MI5 officer' and warned her never to discuss the matter or face criminal prosecution.
Only days earlier the woman had applied for a sensitive job within Fayed's inner circle. She was later assaulted by him.
For years she assumed the surveillance at her flat was somehow linked to a counter terrorism operation, but it was not until it was revealed last year that Fayed raped female staff, spied on employees and bribed detectives, that she connected it to his predatory behaviour.
'At the time I believed it was all legitimate,' said the woman. 'I grew up trusting the police. They were there to look after us.
'It never occurred to me – an educated, professional woman – that they might not be telling me the truth, that they might be in on it. Some might think me naive but part of this whole ruse took place inside Scotland Yard.'
Police are investigating astonishing claims that corrupt detectives working for Mohamed Al Fayed deceived one of his victims by staging an elaborate ruse involving a bogus MI5 officer and a bugged flat
Al Fayed, the former owner of Harrods, has been described as a 'thoroughly evil' man
Now in her 40s and a well-regarded businesswoman, she tells The Mail on Sunday in an interview ...
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