Britain's Home Office has formally confirmed that at least five survivors of abuse by the late Mohamed Al Fayed — the Egyptian-born billionaire who owned London luxury department store Harrods until 2010 — are victims of human trafficking, the Metropolitan Police's ongoing inquiry has revealed. Survivors have long argued that Fayed, who died in 2023 without facing charges, could not have operated alone, with one describing how Harrods itself processed women to him and silenced them afterward; the trafficking cases span from the 1990s through to after the 2010 Harrods sale, and involved both international and domestic victims. The Metropolitan Police investigation, known as Operation Cornpoppy, has questioned four individuals in 21 months and is examining who facilitated Fayed's crimes, against a backdrop of more than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct made against him covering the period from 1977 to 2014.