Disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was blasted by political figures for his “disgraceful behaviour” and for “selling our country” after new “damning evidence” emerged of him appearing to leak confidential information during his time as a UK trade envoy to Jeffrey Epstein. Police and ministers faced mounting calls for a full investigation into the former Duke of York, who appears to have fully exploited his tax-funded position to boost the convicted paedophile’s business interests.

A new report looking deeper into the newly released Epstein files by the Mail on Sunday revealed how Andrew appeared to leak sensitive information about Royal Bank of Scotland in the aftermath of its £45 billion taxpayer-funded bailout and that a senior palace aide leaked an official diplomatic cable about UK-China trade relations to a banker who was Andrew's friend and business associate It also revealed that the disgraced US financier boasted of getting intelligence from Andrew, former Cabinet Minister Lord Mandelson and a mysterious “third man”, declaring: “I've got the UK sewn up”.

The Epstein files appeared to show that the convicted paedophile organised meetings for Andrew during an official trade mission to China, instead of the Government.

Some of the emails within the three million documents released by the US Department of Justice last month appeared to show how David Stern, a London-based German businessman who was an adviser to both Andrew and Epstein, would help fix the former prince’s meetings and would later discuss how to cash in.

In an email sent to Epstein on August 24, 2010, Mr Stern can be seen saying: “[Prince Andrew’s office and embassy can not get some meetings they wanted. They asked me today for help. Before I reply I want to check with you: Based on your request I will NOT suggest industry ministries (ministry of railways, ministry of land natural resources, etc) instead broader areas which can be a basis for helping China abroad AND creating the theme of (safety, expertise, integrity, trust) financial / asset management.”

On October 25 of the same year, he emailed Epstein again: “Need to discuss with you if we can do wealth management for chinese with JPM, ideally Cazenove name? Partner with Bruno Wu and involve [Prince Andrew].”

Two days later, October 27, he sends another email, saying: “During the last 6 months that I saw [Prince Andrew] activities 1.proper deals are not shown to him (they don't associate him with deal making + have too much respect to raise deals, rather talk about world politics) 2. he mainly gets troubleshooting/crap deals to "save a UK company" 3. there's no follow up.

“Since China trip in September I started to follow up on meetings we had to develop/attract deals.Is this right??”

Another email stated that Epstein arranged for Andrew to have dinner at St Regis hotel in Beijing with Jes Staley, a senior JP Morgan banker whose role as the paedophile's personal banker was later exposed.

Other files within the tranche of documents stated that Andrew wanted the first four days in China to be “private”, while photographs sent to Epstein by Stern showed the former Duke meeting several young women.

There is no suggestion that these women were victims of any crimes.

The latest revelations brought a fresh clamour of demands for a full investigation into Andrew’s time as a UK trade envoy.

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable told the Mail: “Of course there should be an inquiry – it's disgraceful behaviour. The main issue is whether this is a police matter and it is for them and the director of public prosecutions to decide. But undoubtedly this is very, very bad behaviour.”

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Andrew has sold our country down the river every chance he gets. It's high time spineless Keir Starmer actually does something and investigates the full extent of the damage he's done to Britain's security.”

Thames Valley Police Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said: 'We continue to assess all relevant information and have no further comment at this time.'

Andrew’s representatives have been contacted for comment.