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Operation Elveden: police officer and journalists arrested
19 September 2012 Last updated at 08:31
Operation Elveden: Police officer and journalists held
Police probing alleged corrupt payments to public officials have arrested a serving officer and two journalists.
A 39-year-old Wiltshire Police officer was held at his home in the county on suspicion of misconduct and conspiracy to commit misconduct.
The two journalists were arrested at their home addresses on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct.
A 51-year man was held in Bristol and a 32-year-old man in south-east London.
Scotland Yard said the arrests were the result of information provided by News Corporation's management standards committee, which was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Operation Elveden is investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials, and runs alongside Operation Weeting, the probe into phone hacking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19646207
Operation Elveden: Police officer and journalists held
Police probing alleged corrupt payments to public officials have arrested a serving officer and two journalists.
A 39-year-old Wiltshire Police officer was held at his home in the county on suspicion of misconduct and conspiracy to commit misconduct.
The two journalists were arrested at their home addresses on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct.
A 51-year man was held in Bristol and a 32-year-old man in south-east London.
Scotland Yard said the arrests were the result of information provided by News Corporation's management standards committee, which was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Operation Elveden is investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials, and runs alongside Operation Weeting, the probe into phone hacking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19646207
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Letter to Rupert Murdoch regarding burglary
September 18th, 2012 |
Mr Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and CEO
News Corporation
1211 Avenue of Americas
New York
NY 10036
18 September 2012
Dear Mr Murdoch,
As you know, I have been uncovering criminality at News International for several years. During which time, the company’s management has regularly asked me to provide evidence of its habitual criminality. I have resisted such requests, as I did not believe they were sincere. It was my belief that senior people at the company knew perfectly well about journalists being involved in phone hacking, computer hacking, bribery and blackmail. And that the company had no wish to deal with these problems – did not even see them as such – rather to know what evidence existed in order to destroy it, to muddy the trail, in short, to cover up. For these reasons, I have resisted passing on evidence to you, and have passed it solely to the law enforcement authorities instead.
Nevertheless, I am writing to you today because I believe it may be possible that that era may be drawing to a close. I believe it possible that you and the current executives at the company may have realised that it is now too late to cover up what has gone on at News International. Whether or not you, and your executives, knew about the widespread use within News International of the latest investigative technique to be revealed – burglary – I believe you may now realise that the flat denial and attempt to destroy evidence of previous days will no longer wash with anybody.
I have seen a document from the hard drive of private investigator Sid Fillery, a regular contractor at News International through his company, Southern Investigations. The document, entitled “Alex1.doc” refers to a request for a sortie into the home of a woman living in Ascot. The hard drive was seized by the police in 2002 and is still in their possession. I understand that it was reviewed by the police in 2010 and that an internal document at the Metropolitan Police states quite clearly that they believe the file shows a conspiracy to break and enter into private property. Further details are on the front page of The Independent today.
You might not also be aware that a number of high profile figures who were the victims of phone hacking also reported mysterious break-ins at their homes. The pattern is the same: the homes clinically entered but no valuables taken. My colleague, Chris Bryant was so concerned that his home had been covertly entered that he reported the matter to the police. I understand the Metropolitan Police dispatched Commander Yates to take the statement. I understand the file containing the statement has gone missing.
I have audio testimony from the undercover former police officer with intimate knowledge of Southern investigations who claims that the burglary of the homes of MPs was a regular occurrence.
I am also aware, through the lawyer of a hacking victim, that there is testimony from another former private investigator that he was regularly hired to break into the homes of individuals who were the subject of investigation by News International. At the present time the investigator is not prepared to speak out in public.
This evidence has come to light after the Leveson Inquiry has stopped taking evidence. I think it important that you make a public statement to clarify how you intend to deal with these startling new revelations and how you will assist the police with their investigation.
Shortly, I will also be writing to you confidentially about information I have received from a former employee of the company regarding the conduct of former News of the World journalist and now Sunday Times investigator, Mazher Mahmood.
If there is any integrity at all to your claims to want to clean up the corruption and criminality endemic in your company, perhaps you would act on the evidence I am adducing. Public re-assurance that this matter is being dealt with would be welcome.
I would be grateful for a swift reply to this letter.
Yours sincerely
Tom Watson
Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East
Crime of Murdoch and his titles
hacking
burglary
bribing
corrupting
what's going to be uncovered next?
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Telegraph.co.uk
Saturday 22 September 2012
Court to decide if Rupert Murdoch can be sued over phone hacking
A group of News Corp shareholders are going to court today to seek permission to hold Rupert Murdoch and his son personally responsible for the phone hacking scandals that have rocked the company.
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The two sun journalists arrested were John Coles and Tom Wells
How odd that Murdoch titles hacked and break into pte homes to sell papers yet let off the most high profile missing-child story of the century that dominated headlines for months on end.
How odd that Murdoch titles hacked and break into pte homes to sell papers yet let off the most high profile missing-child story of the century that dominated headlines for months on end.
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Another Met cop arrested.......
martinbrunt @skymartinbrunt 2h
#elveden Met cop, 47, from Yard's Special Ops dept, arrested with woman, 48, held in Surrey re bungs investigation. Total 76 arrests now.
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