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Foreign Diplomats in UK Accused of Child Sex Offenses, Human Trafficking

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Foreign diplomatic staffers in the United Kingdom were implicated in 11 serious and significant offenses last year, written statements by the UK Foreign Office revealed Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Six of them were driving-related but a few dealt with molesting children and smuggling servants into the country, the bunch of 30 documents showed.

"Around 22,500 people are entitled to diplomatic immunity… The number of alleged serious crimes committed by members of the diplomatic community in the UK is proportionately low," the writing by UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson stated.

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A member of the Mexican Embassy allegedly forced an underage child to look at an image of sexual activity, while someone at the Saudi Arabian mission took an indecent photo of a child and used abuse to harass the victim, the paper said.

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A staffer of the Saudi Embassy was reportedly also involved in human trafficking or forced a person to compulsory labor.

A member of the Gabon Embassy is said to have smuggled a person into the United Kingdom to be exploited for domestic chores. Someone in the Chinese Embassy reportedly committed the offense of actual bodily harm.

Additionally, the US Embassy owed Britain a total of 10.6 million pounds ($14 million) in unpaid fines as of 2015.

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