Foreign Office to pay £423,000 to whistleblowing lawyer who lost job

FCDO continues to rebut claims by Maria Bamieh, who says she was told to ignore evidence of EU corruption

A prosecutor dismissed from a Foreign Office job after blowing the whistle on suspected corruption in the EU's biggest foreign mission has agreed a settlement with the UK government of more than 400,000.

Maria Bamieh, a barrister, has claimed for the past eight years that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) failed to provide support after she attempted to expose possible collusion between EU officials and suspected criminals in Kosovo.