In a statement released by Fulham FC, his family said: 'Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed, her children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and their grandfather, Mohamed, has passed away peacefully of old age on Wednesday.
Harrods has said it's looking into whether any current staff members were involved in the sex crime allegations against former boss Mohamed Al Fayed .
The luxury department store last night announced that it had hired external lawyers to conduct a probe into the role, if any, played by staff still employed by Harrods. Other lawyers and victims have called for a public inquiry to expose how the alleged sexual abuse and trafficking at Harrods was allowed to continue for decades.
Mr Drummond said the store’s current managing director Michael Ward, who has been at Harrods since 2005, faces serious questions over how much the world famous shop knew about the abuse at the time.Al Fayed is accused of raping and assaulting multiple women during his time as Harrods owner from 1985 to 2010
He said some of the survivors come from Malaysia, Dubai, Canada and France, while the Ritz Hotel in Paris, which Al Fayed once owned, had also been the scene of alleged assaults. ‘It is crucial to understand how it was possible to establish a multi-decade trafficking operation at a trusted institution such as Harrods, and how it remained concealed for so long,’ she added.
Backing calls for a public inquiry, Sir Robert Buckland said the victims also deserved answers over why the authorities had failed to act. Their comments came as a former Harrods employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme of 'enablers' at the luxury store who were 'as guilty as Al Fayed because they were not just passive onlookers'.
'We also acknowledge that during this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise.
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