LONDON: Two British tabloid journalists were arrested Wednesday in an investigation into illegal payments to government officials, the first confirmed cases of alleged corruption as the titles are not related to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The media group Trinity Mirror said it was cooperating with the police after officers arrested Justin Penrose in his newspaper Sunday Mirror, while Sky News the other's name as Tom Savage in the Daily Star Sunday.
The two were arrested at their homes in southern England as part of an investigation into improper payments to the police that were discovered by a wider investigation on phone hacking forced to close its Murdoch's News of the World last year.
No one in the Northern & Shell Group, which owns the Daily Star was not immediately available for comment.
Trinity Mirror has previously said it conducted a review of its editorial controls and procedures and obtained written confirmation of their senior executives of writing that had not participated in the phone-hacking or bribery. However, a former Mirror journalist, Greig Box Turnbull, was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of bribery and misconduct that causes a public office. A spokesman for his new employer, confirmed the arrest.
About 40 people have been arrested in the investigation into the payment of officials of tipoffs.
The media group Trinity Mirror said it was cooperating with the police after officers arrested Justin Penrose in his newspaper Sunday Mirror, while Sky News the other's name as Tom Savage in the Daily Star Sunday.
The two were arrested at their homes in southern England as part of an investigation into improper payments to the police that were discovered by a wider investigation on phone hacking forced to close its Murdoch's News of the World last year.
No one in the Northern & Shell Group, which owns the Daily Star was not immediately available for comment.
Trinity Mirror has previously said it conducted a review of its editorial controls and procedures and obtained written confirmation of their senior executives of writing that had not participated in the phone-hacking or bribery. However, a former Mirror journalist, Greig Box Turnbull, was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of bribery and misconduct that causes a public office. A spokesman for his new employer, confirmed the arrest.
About 40 people have been arrested in the investigation into the payment of officials of tipoffs.
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