Sun scribe held in graft probe over UK hacking
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August 8, 2012, Wednesday
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POLICE arrested a journalist working for Rupert Murdoch's British Sun newspaper on suspicion of corruption yesterday as part of a wide-reaching investigation centered on allegations of phone-hacking by reporters.
The unnamed 37-year-old man was held at his home in north London at about 6:00am, the Metropolitan Police said.
News International, the British arm of Murdoch's News Corp empire, confirmed he worked for the Sun.
Detectives also arrested a 29-year-old police officer serving with the Sussex Police force in southern England.
Police said the arrests were made as a result of information provided to it by News Corp's internal Management Standards Committee, which was set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. The arrests take to 43 the number of suspects held by detectives working for Operation Elveden, a probe into illegal payments by journalists to police and public officers in return for information.
That inquiry is running alongside the main investigation into allegations of phone-hacking by journalists at News International, known as Operation Weeting, and a separate inquiry into illegal breaches of privacy, including computer hacking.
The unnamed 37-year-old man was held at his home in north London at about 6:00am, the Metropolitan Police said.
News International, the British arm of Murdoch's News Corp empire, confirmed he worked for the Sun.
Detectives also arrested a 29-year-old police officer serving with the Sussex Police force in southern England.
Police said the arrests were made as a result of information provided to it by News Corp's internal Management Standards Committee, which was set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. The arrests take to 43 the number of suspects held by detectives working for Operation Elveden, a probe into illegal payments by journalists to police and public officers in return for information.
That inquiry is running alongside the main investigation into allegations of phone-hacking by journalists at News International, known as Operation Weeting, and a separate inquiry into illegal breaches of privacy, including computer hacking.
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