The Metropolitan Police said in an email on Tuesday that it received an allegation of sexual assault by a man against a woman in the early 1990s, in a case connected to what the police call “Operation Kaguyak.”
The statement did not identify the accused person as Mr. Weinstein, following the usual procedure of withholding personal details until a person is charged. But news reports have widely linked the operation to the allegations in Britain against Mr. Weinstein. A representative for Mr. Weinstein declined to comment on the matter.
Mr. Weinstein, who has denied accusations of nonconsensual sex even as more than 80 women have said that he sexually harassed or assaulted them, was arrested in New York in May and has been charged with sexually assaulting at least three women.
Federal prosecutors in the United States are examining his ties with a private Israeli intelligence firm after Mr. Weinstein was accused of spyingon some of the women who had accused him of sexual misconduct.
A New York Times investigation found last year that the web of accusations against Mr. Weinstein stretched across the globe, and that he had reached at least eight settlements with women who had accused him of inappropriate sexual conduct.
In the 1980s and ’90s, as Mr. Weinstein built the success of the production company Miramax, which had offices in London, several female employees reported unwanted sexual advances.
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