Six FBI agents were investigated for allegedly soliciting prostitution, trafficking drugs and failing to report unofficial interactions for foreign nationals while on assignment overseas, a Justice Department watchdog says.
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General released an investigative report on Tuesday that accuses four FBI officials of soliciting, procuring and accepting sex from prostitutes while on duty in a foreign country and lying about it. A fifth official also allegedly"solicited commercial sex overseas" and a sixth official knew about their alleged misconduct but didn't report it, according to the report.
Read MoreDuring the investigation, four of the FBI officials"lacked candor about their interactions with prostitutes and other misconduct during OIG compelled interviews and compelled polygraph examinations," the inspector general said, adding that one person"made false statements in an OIG compelled interview and compelled polygraph examination in violation of federal law, when the official denied having engaged in sex acts with a prostitute.