DID RUSSIAN SPOOKS FINGER RANDY MATT?
MI5 probe claims Moscow hacked security camera
SPYCATCHERS from MI5 are to probe whether RUSSIAN agents hacked the Department of Health CCTV system to get footage of Matt Hancock snogging Gina Coladangelo and groping her arse.
It’s feared that spies from Vladimir Putin’s feared FSB secret police have somehow found a way to spy on British ministers in their own offices and are using footage to destabilise the British state.
One security source said: “What are the chances of a minister being caught like this just days after Britain humiliated Russia by steaming a warship through waters they claim as their own?
“It’s too much of a coincidence and there’s no such thing as coincidence in the intelligence world.”
Last week, HMS Defender was buzzed and fired on by Russian forces sailing through waters off the Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
President Putin was said to be “furious” at the provocation and ordered his operatives to “seek revenge”.
Kissing
Claims of Russian dirty tricks were given added weight yesterday when it emerged that the CCTV camera that filmed Matt Hancock cheating on his wife with university friend Ms Coladangelo should have been pointing in the opposite direction.
Security expert David Videcette, a former Scotland Yard detective, says the camera would have been there to watch the former health secretary’s 9th floor balcony, which also contained his fire exit.
Mr Videcette believes ‘someone repurposed the camera’, raising the prospect that it was either physically or remotely turned 180 degrees toward the door where the colleagues were caught kissing.
He tweeted: “The decisions to use this space as his office have been idiotic. But the point here is this – someone repurposed the camera. “
He added: “The implications of that from a security point of view is huge.”
It raises the prospect that someone may have known that the lovers canoodled against the office door and turned the camera to get the evidence that saw Mr Hancock leave his job and his wife.
A Department of Health and Social Care investigation will now consider if the camera was swivelled around and, if so, who did it.
A Scotland Yard security review said that a CCTV camera in his office should have a “limited field of vision” to “ensure privacy”.
Sajid Javid has taken over the office and has had the CCTV camera above the meeting table taped up and disabled.
Ministers’ offices are now being swept for bugs and hidden cameras.