Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/6 Next image Previous image Toggle caption Clockwise from top left: Oleg Deripaska, Peter Mandelson, Lan Fo’an and Tamir Hayman. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Israeli ministry of national security View image in fullscreen Clockwise from top left: Oleg Deripaska, Peter Mandelson, Lan Fo’an and Tamir Hayman. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Israeli ministry of national security Revealed: Mandelson vetting warned of ties to senior figures in China, Russia and IsraelExclusive: Vetting officials also flagged £1m loan when recommending he should be denied security clearance
Key questions: did ‘mitigations’ cover links to China and Russia? Peter Mandelson’s associations with senior figures in China, Russia and Israel were among the concerns raised by the UK’s vetting agency when it concluded he should be denied clearance, multiple sources have told the Guardian. Mandelson’s links to China’s minister of finance, Lan Fo’an, the sanctions-hit Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and a former Israeli military intelligence general, Tamir Hayman, were all flagged by the agency as areas of concern shortly before he took up his post as the UK’s ambassador to the US, the sources said.
Published: May 27, 2026 1:35 pm
Source: The Guardian — Read original