The Metropolitan Police force’s investigation into whether Lord Mandelson handed over confidential government information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein may be ‘at risk of collapse’.
Scotland Yard detectives believe they may need the unredacted Epstein Files to secure a misconduct in public office charge against the former Labour grandee.
However, the force thinks it is becoming more and more unlikely that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) will share the documents.
The Met’s requests for the documents, initially made amid an unofficial agreement between the agencies to share information, have gone unanswered by both the DoJ and FBI, according to reports.
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