LONDON, March 26 (UPI) -- British authorities will investigate whether U.K. officials were involved in the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, terror detainee Binyam Mohamed.
British Attorney General Patricia Scotland said she will ask the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force to investigate "possible criminal wrongdoing" related to Mohamed, The Financial Times reported Thursday.
Mohamed, who was released from Guantanamo Bay last month, claims he was tortured after being arrested in Pakistan in 2002.
He says that before being sent to Guantanamo Bay, he was sent to detention centers in Morocco and Afghanistan under the U.S. government's program of extraordinary rendition.
The newspaper reported that the British investigation will focus on allegations that domestic officials fed information about Mohamed's case to his captors.
"Any decision on whether any person should be charged with a criminal offense can only be taken following the police investigation on the basis of an independent assessment of the evidence and the public interest, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors," the attorney general said.
