Those investigations have broadened from an initial focus into allegations that News of the World reporters hacked into voicemail messages left on the mobile phones of celebrities, politicians and crime victims and now includes probes into corrupt payments to officials and computer hacking.Ī total of 79 people have been arrested across all three inquiries, about half of which are current or former journalists who mostly worked for Murdoch’s papers. Speaking at a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said London’s police force had budgeted for three more years of inquiries into the illegal activities of British journalists. ![]() The police investigation into criminal activities at Murdoch’s News International unit has already forced him to close the News of the World tabloid and end a deal to acquire the whole of the pay-TV group BSkyB, which would have been the biggest deal in News Corp’s history. ![]() ![]() News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch reacts to a point as he takes part in a discussion at the "The Economics and Politics of Immigration" Forum in Boston, Massachusetts August 14, 2012.
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