Leveson Inquiry: 'Culture Of Illegal Payments' At The Sun
Rebekah Brooks Tipped Off About Extent Of Hacking Probe
AP
By MEERA SELVA Posted: 02/27/12 05:54 AM ET
LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch's top-selling U.K. tabloid, The Sun, had a culture of making illegal payments to corrupt public officials in return for stories, a senior British police officer said Monday.
Sue Akers, the Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner, told Britain's media ethics inquiry that the newspaper openly referred to paying its sources and that such payments were authorized at a senior level.
Akers made her accusations a day after Murdoch launched The Sun on Sunday, a replacement for his News of the World tabloid, which he shut down in July when it became too tainted in Britain's phone hacking scandal.
Her comments also came on the same day that Murdoch's company paid former teen singing sensation Charlotte Church 600,000 pounds ($951,000) in a phone-hacking settlement for violating her and her family's privacy.
(More here.)
AP
By MEERA SELVA Posted: 02/27/12 05:54 AM ET
LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch's top-selling U.K. tabloid, The Sun, had a culture of making illegal payments to corrupt public officials in return for stories, a senior British police officer said Monday.
Sue Akers, the Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner, told Britain's media ethics inquiry that the newspaper openly referred to paying its sources and that such payments were authorized at a senior level.
Akers made her accusations a day after Murdoch launched The Sun on Sunday, a replacement for his News of the World tabloid, which he shut down in July when it became too tainted in Britain's phone hacking scandal.
Her comments also came on the same day that Murdoch's company paid former teen singing sensation Charlotte Church 600,000 pounds ($951,000) in a phone-hacking settlement for violating her and her family's privacy.
(More here.)
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