LONDON — British police on Friday searched two properties linked to ex-ambassador Peter Mandelson as part of a probe into potential misconduct stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Hayley Sewart said that “officers from the Met’s Central Specialist Crime team are in the process of carrying out search warrants at two addresses, one in the Wiltshire area, and another in the Camden area.”

“The searches are related to an ongoing investigation into misconduct in public office offenses, involving a 72-year-old man,” Stewart continued.

Mandelson, 72, has homes in Wiltshire in Western England and the Camden area of London.

Two people believed to be police officers were seen entering Mandelson’s London home near Regents Park on Friday afternoon.

The former Cabinet minister, ambassador and elder statesman of the governing Labour Party........

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