Perspective: KompromatMI6 Fears Russia Can Link Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein Abuse
British intelligence chiefs are concerned that Russia may have obtained kompromat, compromising material, on Prince Andrew over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. MI6 is understood to be concerned about the activities of a former Florida police officer who had access to the investigation into the billionaire pedophile and then moved to Russia. John Mark Dougan, a former deputy in the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office, left the United States in 2009 and has been living in Moscow since then. Since the Epstein case was reopened in July 2019, Dougan started to make Facebook posts relating to the case. His intervention alarmed British and American intelligence officials, who appear to have been tracking his activities since he was photographed with Pavel Borodin in 2013. A Western intelligence source told The Times that Dougan exhibited a number of “classic traits” that made him suitable for recruitment by a “hostile intelligence service.” Borodin, a senior Russian government official, is referred to as a mentor to President Vladimir Putin.
British intelligence chiefs are concerned that Russia may have obtained kompromat, compromising material, on Prince Andrew over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Tom Harper writes in The Times that MI6 is understood to be concerned about the activities of a former Florida police officer who had access to the investigation into the billionaire pedophile and then moved to Russia.
The bizarre case of John Mark Dougan, a former deputy in the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office, has provided further evidence that the prince’s repeated efforts to distance himself from allegations of sexual abuse are failing to shield him from the fallout of the Epstein case.
A security source said last week there were concerns at MI6 about how much Dougan knows of the original police investigation into the multimillionaire pedophile’s activities and what Dougan may have passed on to Russian authorities.
Dougan is known to have had contact with Pavel Borodin, a senior Russian government official sometimes referred to as a mentor to President Vladimir Putin.
Dougan, a former U.S. marine, fell out with Epstein in 2009 and moved to Moscow, where he has been living since then. Since the Epstein case was reopened in July 2019, Dougan started to make Facebook posts relating to the case.
His intervention alarmed British and American intelligence officials, who appear to have been tracking his activities since he was photographed with Borodin in 2013.
A Western intelligence source told The Times that Dougan exhibited a number of “classic traits” that made him suitable for recruitment by a “hostile intelligence service”.
The source added: “His knowledge of the Epstein case would have been of great interest to Russian intelligence.”
“In 2016, three years after his meeting with Borodin, Dougan set up a website posing as a Russian hacker called ‘BadVolf.’ Since then he has published the confidential addresses of U.S. public officials and leaked Democratic Party emails which were hacked by Russian intelligence agents as part of the Kremlin’s broad and successful effort to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election,” The Times reports.
