http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1186959/Royal-chauffeur-allowed-reporters-sit-Queens-Bentley-suspended.html By Rebecca English DailyMail.co.uk 24th May 2009 Buckingham Palace was forced to launch an urgent security review today by the Queen who was furious after a royal chauffeur took a £1,000 bribe from undercover reporters for access to her fleet of limousines. Former army officer Brian Sirjusingh, who lives in a grace-and-favour apartment in the Royal Mews, brought the two men into the heart of the palace without any security checks and gave them a guided tour of the monarch's fleet of official cars. In a deal set up by a £200-an-hour Lithuanian escort girl who is also allowed unfettered access to the Palace, he encouraged the News of the World journalists, who were posing as wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen, to sit on the back seat of her Bentley, bragging: 'That's where the Queen sits.' The incident is a terrible embarrassment to Scotland Yard's Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Squad who claimed to have put stringent checks in place following a string of security breaches. [...] --Received on Tue May 26 2009 - 01:41:06 PDT
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