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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

Ex-Harrods director says Mohamed Al Fayed used cash bribes to ‘control’ staff

Mohamed Al Fayed
Mohamed Al Fayed, who died last year, has been accused of assaulting more than 100 victims. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

A former Harrods director has claimed he was handed envelopes of cash by Mohamed Al Fayed as part of the billionaire’s plan to control and manipulate senior management and cover up alleged incidents of sexual abuse.

Jon Brilliant, who worked in Fayed’s private office for 18 months, claimed his former boss would sack those he could not control. Managers were let go or quit so often that a national newspaper began to publish a regular count, which reached 48 in 2005, he said.

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