Ministers spent £2.4m fighting to keep huge Afghan data breach a secret

The ministers appeared to have spent £ 2.4 million to fight to protect the secret of data leakage of a disaster for two years using an unprecedented super gunkitation.

In February 2022, the mode leakage revealed the details of thousands of Afghan, who said that they were in danger from the Taliban because of their connections to the UK forces and that they now want to escape to England.

The violation was discovered only in August 2023 that some of the leaked database was published online and that 16,000 was brought to a very secret government operation, which sees that Afghan was brought to security in England.

The entire operation was kept secret from the public using a Superinjunction, which was brought to the Latin contamination against the world.

Now, shared information freedom data New York Times He announced that the government has spent legal fees of 2.4 million pounds to fight to keep the plan confidential.

The secret re -settlement scheme, the data leaked data and the precautionary measure itself, but the media organizations – emerged after a court war that lasted almost two years – Independent – He fought to remove the order.

After the abolition of Superinjunction, he admitted that the information, which is important than the overthrow, existed last year. The unprecedented Gaging order was removed in July after finding that a review of a review by the defense secretary John Healey was not important for those on the list.

As a written response to more investigation requests of the Supreme Court judge about why the order could not be abolished earlier, a senior government official admitted that a large amount of information that allows the publication of the violation was already known by the Ministry of Defense.

The Supreme Court judge, Mr. Justice Chamberlain, previously decided to remove Superinjunction in May 2024, in part, because he thought that the confidentiality prevented the Afghans from taking steps to help them, he could not mean that the influence of 18.700 Afghan was in danger.

However, the government appealed this decision to keep the order in place, and those affected by the violation only learned that they were exposed only when Superinjunction was abolished.

In Pakistani police raids, the Afghans were detained for the legal costs of the defense, as the Afghans promised a new life in the United Kingdom.

An old Afghan interpreter exposed to a violation of mode was detained after the proposal to move to the United Kingdom was canceled. An old Afghan Special Forces Commando According to a family member who managed to avoid the arrest, his family was also detained and taken to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.