Overview
- Police said a 72-year-old man arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office has been released under investigation and that the inquiry remains ongoing.
- Mandelson’s lawyers said all bail conditions were removed and his passport was returned, and they stated he will continue to cooperate.
- He was arrested in late February after Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle passed information suggesting he could be a flight risk to the British Virgin Islands.
- His lawyers called the flight-risk claims baseless, and Mandelson denies any wrongdoing.
- He was removed as the UK’s ambassador to the US last year and later resigned from the Labour Party and the House of Lords after new emails appeared in the US ‘Epstein files’.