{"id":313491,"date":"2026-02-23T19:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:47:07","slug":"mandelson-arrested-on-suspicion-of-misconduct-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313491\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former British ambassador \u2060to the US Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police said the 72-year-old was taken to a London police station for interview.<\/p>\n<p>The former Labour minister has been accused of passing sensitive information onto paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during his time as business secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Two of his properties were previously searched by police in connection with the allegations, which surfaced following the US Department of Justice&#8217;s document dump related to Epstein last month.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the so-called Epstein files, emails from 2009 appear to show Mr Mandelson pass on an assessment by Gordon Brown\u2019s adviser of potential policy measures including an &#8220;asset sales plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared to discuss a tax on bankers\u2019 bonuses and confirm an imminent bailout package for the euro the day before it was announced in 2010.<\/p>\n<p alt=\"Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office\" class=\"tpe\" data-description=\"\" data-embed=\"rte-player\" data-id=\"22587011\" data-ot-category=\"C0004\" data-title=\"\">We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.<a class=\"blocked-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/uk\/2026\/0223\/1560023-mandelson-arrest\/javascript:void(0);\" onclick=\"OneTrust.ToggleInfoDisplay()\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement confirming the arrest, police said: &#8220;Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station for interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UK Cabinet Office previously referred material to police in connection with the probe into Mr Mandelson after an initial review of the Epstein files suggested &#8220;safeguards were compromised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shown by broadcasters showed a plain clothed police officer leading Mr Mandelson out of a house.<\/p>\n<p>He then gets into the left rear seat of a waiting unmarked Ford Focus police car.<\/p>\n<p>The male police officer then gets into the right rear passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>A female police officer gets into the front seat of the car before it is driven away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British ambassador \u2060to the US Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London police on suspicion of misconduct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-313491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}