Foreign Office to pay £423,000 to whistleblowing lawyer who lost job

Maria Bamieh in Pristina in 2014. She said officials told her to ignore apparent evidence of collusion at the EU’s mission EULEX. Photograph: Hazir Reka/Reuters

A prosecutor dismissed from a Foreign Office job after blowing the whistle on suspected corruption in the EU’s biggest foreign mission has agreed a settlement with the UK government of more than £400,000.

Maria Bamieh, a barrister, has claimed for the past eight years that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) failed to provide support after she attempted to expose possible collusion between EU officials and suspected criminals in Kosovo.