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According to the latest reports, criminal investigations into British newspapers have widened to include Trinity Mirror and Express Newspapers.
Scotland Yard police chief, Sue Akers said inquiries into the Murdoch media empire had uncovered evidence suggesting journalists at two other newspaper groups had paid almost £35,000 a high-security prison officer for information. She alleged payments were made via the prison officer’s former partner, adding that detectives believed another prison officer had received £14,000 from Trinity Mirror.
The deputy assistant commissioner in charge of three inquiries into News International said that both Trinity Mirror, which publishes the Mirror titles and the People, and Express Newspapers, which produces the Express and Star titles, had agreed to co-operate with the Met.
Ms. Akers suggested evidence on the other newspaper groups came from the NI phone-hacking investigation.
Ms. Akers have told that to date, 15 current and former journalists have been arrested under Operation Weeting, the Met’s probe into alleged phone hacking, of whom 12 are on bail.
Six people, including former Sun editor, Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie, have been charged in relation to the inquiry and are scheduled to appear in court in September.
Forty one people have been arrested under Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged corrupt payments to officials, including 23 former or current journalists, four police officers, nine current or former public officials and five people who allegedly acted as go-betweens.
Seven arrests have been made as part of Operation Tuleta, which is looking at allegations of computer hacking and privacy infringement.
Further arrests are also expected in this regard.
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