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The Sun on Sunday (we knew it)
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Date: February 19, 2012 02:19PM
LONDON —British authorities arrested eight people Saturday (2/11), including five employees of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, as part of an investigation into bribery of public officials by journalists, according to Scotland Yard and the newspaper’s parent company.
The arrests were made on the suspicion of corruption in conjunction with a search at the homes of those arrested and at the newspaper’s office complex, detectives said in a statement.
The five Sun employees were not identified by the police, but the newspaper’s staff was told that they were a deputy editor, Geoff Webster; the chief reporter, John Kay; the chief foreign correspondent, Nick Parker; a picture editor, John Edwards; and a reporter, John Sturgis, according to an internal message.
In addition to the journalists, a police officer, a Defense Ministry official and a member of the British armed forces were arrested Saturday, the police said. They were also charged with corruption, as well as “misconduct in a public office.”
The Sun is Murdoch’s British flagship and the best-selling daily newspaper here, with a circulation of just over 2.7 million copies daily, according to figures from late last year. It had been on the fringes of a scandal that led to the closing of its sister tabloid, News of the World, last summer over accusations of illegal news-gathering techniques such as intercepting voice-mail messages, hacking computers and bribing public officials.
The bribery investigation, one of three police investigations initiated in the wake of that scandal, has now widened to include “public officials who are not police officers,” detectives said in their statement.
Despite all this, Rupert Murdoch will soon publish the Sun on Sunday - his original plan when he shuttered the News of World paper.
Fairfaxunderground rules: Lilliputions, not ok. Midgettville ok. I got it now.
The arrests were made on the suspicion of corruption in conjunction with a search at the homes of those arrested and at the newspaper’s office complex, detectives said in a statement.
The five Sun employees were not identified by the police, but the newspaper’s staff was told that they were a deputy editor, Geoff Webster; the chief reporter, John Kay; the chief foreign correspondent, Nick Parker; a picture editor, John Edwards; and a reporter, John Sturgis, according to an internal message.
In addition to the journalists, a police officer, a Defense Ministry official and a member of the British armed forces were arrested Saturday, the police said. They were also charged with corruption, as well as “misconduct in a public office.”
The Sun is Murdoch’s British flagship and the best-selling daily newspaper here, with a circulation of just over 2.7 million copies daily, according to figures from late last year. It had been on the fringes of a scandal that led to the closing of its sister tabloid, News of the World, last summer over accusations of illegal news-gathering techniques such as intercepting voice-mail messages, hacking computers and bribing public officials.
The bribery investigation, one of three police investigations initiated in the wake of that scandal, has now widened to include “public officials who are not police officers,” detectives said in their statement.
Despite all this, Rupert Murdoch will soon publish the Sun on Sunday - his original plan when he shuttered the News of World paper.
Fairfaxunderground rules: Lilliputions, not ok. Midgettville ok. I got it now.