Former Defense Secretary Grant Shaps has defended the decision to keep a data violation secret by incorporating the details of thousands of Afghans and some British authorities.

In his first interview since going public, Shaps reported that the BBC had “fully appropriate” in favor of taking precautions, their focus was to “sort the dirt and save life”.

Many people were judged to have serious losses or even the threat of death as the Taliban demanded vengeance against those working with the British government during the conflict.

He said that the prohibition blocking of Breech was “implemented” by his predecessor and believed that it should stay in place at that time.

A “Super -in -Innovation” – a type of gagging order that prevents the reporting of the prohibitory orders – was lifted earlier this week.

Shaps told the BBC Radio 4’s Today’s program that “faced whether it would get out of that list and people would be resulting in, murder and executed, or something to save and save those lives, I will now explain in this interview that why failed to work in this interview and people were killed.

He said that he was surprised that this order lasted for so long and thought, because the risks began to decrease, it must have ended last year.

Shaps was also asked that the Intelligence and Security Committee, which investigated security services, was not informed, about which he replied “even a sign of being around it … it means that the risks were incredibly high”.

He said, “” which was briefed “was decided by conversation with the judges,” he said: “You can argue that the circle should be widespread”.

During the 20 -year war in Afghanistan, the data of around 19,000 Afghans working with the British during the 20 -year war was applied to the UK, which was inadvertently leaked in February 2022.

More than 100 UK details were also released, including detectives and special forces.

The discovery of violation in 2023 forced the government to secretly install a rehabilitation plan for the affected people – a rehabilitation plan for the affected people, which were not told about the violation despite their safety risk.

The scheme has already allowed 4,500 Afghans and family members to visit the UK and expect 2,400 people at an estimated cost of £ 850m.

Casual leaks were the result of someone working in the UK special forces headquarters in London, inadvertently emailing a person out of the government over 30,000 rehabilitation applications, thinking that he was sending data to just 150 people.

The Ministry of Defense has refused to say how many people in Afghanistan may suffer loss as a result of data violation.

The Taliban government said on Thursday that it had not arrested or monitored the leak -affected Afghans.