Phone hacking saga: 3 men cuffed over alleged plod bungs
Murdoch's News Corp accuses two cops, one journo
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Three men were cuffed early this morning by Scotland Yard officers probing alleged inappropriate payments to cops and public officials. The investigation is related to the ongoing high-profile phone hacking inquiry.
The suspects, each manacled at separate addresses, were taken to three different cop shops in the south east of England for questioning, the Met said.
A 39-year-old man, who is a journalist, was arrested at his home in Hertfordshire on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office. He is being held in a north London police station.
Two serving police officers at Scotland Yard were also nicked this morning as part of the Operation Elveden probe into alleged bribes to public officials.
A 47-year-old bloke, who works at the Met Police specialist operations command, will be quizzed at a Surrey cop shop over suspected misconduct in a public office and corruption claims.
And a 30-year-old specialist crime and ops command police officer for the Met is being interviewed regarding the same allegations at a south London station.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which owns News International - the British newspaper publisher whose Sunday tabloid News of the World was shuttered in July 2011 after the phone-hacking scandal erupted - assisted the Yard by handing over information to the Met that led to today's arrests.
This morning's bust, which relate to unspecified events between 2004 and 2011, bring the total number of Op Elveden arrests to 56 so far. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Mis-read
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I'm inclined to suspect it IS about "inadequate" payments ... the journalists and their police sources broke the law. Even while the story itself was breaking, we kept having reports along the lines of "someone has been arrested ... police haven't officially said who, but we bunged a plod some cash to find out that it was (this guy)" - exactly the crime people were being arrested for, but apparently they got away with it this time!
Did we really need a "public inquiry", rather than arresting and prosecuting the culprits like for any other crime? What's the point in new laws, when the acts that caused the problem were already illegal and the culprits known to the police for it?! Enforcement, people!
Not this again
I wish the media would stop calling this "hacking". For starters, the correct term would be "cracking" and it doesn't even qualify as that if all they've done is enter the default pin number for voicemail.
Shame on you Reg, I would expect better.
I wonder ....
My guess is that a few plods will take early retirement on full pensions while the journos will feel the full majesty of the law.
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