The Metropolitan Police person sent a record of grounds to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) relating to a antheral successful his 80s arsenic portion of its probe into Mohamed Al Fayed.
A antheral and a woman, some successful their 80s, were interviewed nether caution past period connected suspicion of aiding and abetting rape and intersexual assault, and assisting the committee of intersexual offences.
The CPS volition present determine whether a complaint tin beryllium made.
Earlier this year, 3 women, aged successful their 40s, 50s and 60s, and 1 antheral successful his 60s were besides questioned. The erstwhile Harrods proprietor died 3 years agone aged 94 having ne'er faced immoderate charges.
A Met Police spokesperson said "detectives submitted a afloat evidential file" to the CPS for a "charging decision".
"The record relates to 1 suspect, a antheral successful his 80s, and relates to 2 indecent assaults connected 2 women successful London. Officers volition proceed to enactment intimately with CPS prosecutors arsenic the lawsuit progresses.
"To date, 7 suspects person been interviewed nether caution connected suspicion of offences including aiding and abetting rape and intersexual assault, assisting successful the committee of intersexual offences, and quality trafficking for the purposes of intersexual exploitation."
Co-chairs of the Justice for Fayed and Harrods Survivors Jen Mills and Lindsay Mason welcomed the latest development.
"The submission of a afloat evidential record to the CPS is simply a important step, and it matters astir of each for the 2 women whose allegations are astatine the centre of it," the connection said.
"Both are members of Justice for Fayed and Harrods Survivors and, arsenic with each those impacted by this scandal, we basal alongside them with emotion and empathy."
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