British diplomat flees Russia after sex scandal
Published: 09 July, 2009, 18:43
Edited: 01 June, 2010, 22:15
TAGS: Scandal, UK, Sex, Internet
A British deputy consul in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has been sacked after he was secretly filmed having sex with two prostitutes.
The explicit video, which was believed to have been shot in a brothel, was posted on a local news website. The footage apparently shows drunk James Hudson romping with two prostitutes.
The British Foreign Office (FCO) confirmed the departure of Hudson, who was the deputy consul general in the city. However, they refused to comment on whether it is indeed their man in Yekaterinburg who is in the video.
The FCO spokesman said the organization “expects all its staff to demonstrate high levels of personal and professional integrity and takes all allegations of inappropriate behavior seriously.”
Yekaterinburg media also accused Hudson of gambling and drug abuse during office hours.
Meanwhile, instead of criticizing the diplomat for his indecent behavior, the British papers have pointed a finger at Russia.
''A security source said Russia's FSB intelligence service, the modern KGB, may have carried out the sting to embarrass Britain,” wrote The Sun. "Russian intelligence has a long history of making sex films and taking compromising photos to control people or further its aims.''
According to The Telegraph, ''Hudson, 37, resigned from his posting to the Urals over the video, which is thought to have been secretly shot by Russian spies. ''
Mail Online News wrote: "Security sources believe Hudson has been caught in a classic sting by Russia's notorious FSB intelligence service."
Meanwhile, Dmitry Babich, a reporter at Russia’s RIA news agency, is “not sure this affair has a political character.”
“Actually, we’ve learned about it from British tabloids. If FSB and Russian authorities in general had wanted to make it a scandal, we would have learned about it from Russian television and it would be given a very high profile,” he said.
Hudson, a divorced father of one, joined the Foreign Office some 15 years ago. He has been posted to Sarajevo, Havana and Budapest. But being caught with his trousers down on film has meant his last posting on active service, not least to Her Majesty, was in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
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Yes the British diplomats, they hasbeen in the brothel with the ladies, all on Her Majesty's Service. Service being the operative word! But they have a pedigree, they hasbeen in India killing the odd 30 million, they hasbeen in Africa, doing a bit of the old slavery discount shoping, and Gunboat diplomacy, they has been in the middle east bashing up the old Arabs to fill up their tanks. They has been in Ireland, annexing North of Ireland (territorial Integrity, I hear you cry!) .......the list is endless They hasbeen in lots of places, getting drunk and exploiting the natives. So now in Russia they get their little missiles out, whilst at home in that craggy land, they get their big US misslies out, because they can't make a big one themselves! Must be the Whisky effect! Britain, a soft place, dreaming of its hard past, just like an old man well past his sell by date!
when you talk about the British nation do you mean the British goverment or the British people.we have no more control over our goverment than you have over yours. when you say we are a nation of hasbeens do you say it with tongue in cheek?I stay in Scotland ten miles from the base that is the home of the Trident ballistic submarines. I bear no malice towards Russia or the Russian people so why all this hatred towards people you have most probably never spoken to or met.
Given the journo's sarcastic and snide style of reporting and the tone in her voice, it seems that Russia Today still has a long way to go to provide unbiased reporting. This is simply a stooge of Russia's other non-partisan media outlets voicing the opinion of the Kremlin and that modern day dictator, Putin. So what that he got filmed using prostitutes. At least the guy comes from a country that allows freedom of speech, the right to assembly and an opposition government who a) exists, and b) actually contributes to the political landscape, unlike Russia. They have replaced the one party rule of Communism with the United Russia party!!