Reports have claimed that a member of the Royal Family was the target of a blackmail plot involving sex and drug allegations. Buckingham Palace has refused to comment. British newspaper, The Sunday Times says an unnamed royal was at the centre of a £50,000 extortion scam.
Reporter Derek Tedder has claimed that the Royal Family are not saying anything at all, which is to be expected but more unusual is the fact that the Metropolitan Police are not saying anything either.
Dickie Arbiter, former Royal press secretary has said, “The handling of the blackmail allegations is done strictly by the book by Buckingham Palace. As soon as something like this happens they inform the police immediately.”
The blackmailers in question allegedly first contacted the royal household on August 2. One of the men involved claims to have evidence suggesting that a royal aide had an envelope full of cocaine that had been supplied by a royal. He also claimed during the conversation that a video tape showing the aide giving oral sex existed. It was indicated that the recipient of the sex act was the unnamed royal.
A senior legal adviser to the royal had agreed with the blackmailers that he would view the tape before handing over the cash. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police have been asked to intervene.
An undercover detective, posing as an aide, contacted the blackmailers and arranged a meeting at the London Hilton in Park Lane.
Officers in the next room secretly filmed the meeting and parts of the video were shown before detectives stepped in, seized the tape and arrested the two blackmailers.
Scotland Yard has said,
“A 30-year-old man and 40-year-old man appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 13th September each charged with one count of blackmail. Both have been remanded in custody to reappear at the Old Bailey on 20th December.”
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