What’s it got to do with anything? Someone upthread asked if the Taliban kept diligent records of sex attacks. I agreed they are unlikely to. So an Afghan working in the care sector (for example) would get a letter from the embassy but I’m not sure the data would be meaningful.
I am unsure if any of the rapists are doctors or nurses or care workers/social workers. Why wouldn’t they be? Rapists work in all areas.
On a separate point it is suggested that Police officers in the U.K. were however involved in these crimes and officials covered up the crimes. I have no idea who these people are or what their background is. But so many people in authority must have known and apparently some were involved. Has there been failures in vetting? Or systems? Or procedures? People mention clan loyalties, is this considered when people are recruited.
If crimes are dealt with locally in a foreign country then yes I do think local officials could be bribed and the crime not recorded correctly or removed from a centralised database. I like to believe every country has an accurate centralised data base accesible by officials but I am not naive enough to think all data about crimes are recorded accurately. Do I think a criminal could bribe a local officer to not record a crime? - in some countries I do think this could happen.
Do I think an embassy official is open to bribery? The FCA classes some embassy officials as PEPs meaning additional money laundering and bribery checks must be done on them (law and finance). I assume the people that write these letters are far lower ranking individuals not subject to these checks but my experience tells me yes Embassy and political figures are thought to be open to bribery. And would they have ‘clan loyalty’?
This website looks at how corrupt a countries officials are.
www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/
‘The CPI ranks 182 countries and territories worldwide by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The results are given on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
There are clearly concerns about public sector corruption. Is this index taken into consideration when employing people who need enhanced checks?
This Ghanaian embassy was committing Visa fraud in 2025 so yes I do think officials in Embassies can be corrupt.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr56vl410go
(Sorry if this is derailing and thank you @SleeplessInWherever for taking time to discuss).