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ITV - Exposure: Inside The Diplomatic Bag (2014)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2044 Kbps | 48mn 0s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 850 MiB
Genre: Documentary

Diplomats ‘responsible for 88 crimes’, new ITV probe reveals. Diplomatic workers in the UK were accused of 88 serious crimes over six years including human trafficking and sexual assault, a new ITV programme reveals. ITV’s Exposure examined Foreign Office statistics on alleged offences committed by diplomats between 2007 and 2012, discovering that dozens of individuals from foreign embassies were accused of a wide range of crimes punishable by jail sentences in Britain. Of the countries whose diplomats allegedly committed the crimes, Saudi Arabia tops the list with 11 alleged offences, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia with five, Cameroon with four and the Ivory Coast and Ghana with three each. Former diplomat Eamon Delaney told Exposure: Inside The Diplomatic Bag, which airs at 10.35pm tonight, that diplomatic immunity is out of control: “There’s no need for so many diplomats and so many staff of embassies to walk around with immunity and with diplomatic passports: it’s an indulgence, it’s outdated, and it is a license to abuse.”