صحافة دولية » UK police arrest Hollywood reporter over hacking
British police investigating a phone-hacking scandal at Rascii117pert Mascii117rdochs defascii117nct News of the World have arrested a senior Hollywood reporter at the tabloid, James Desboroascii117gh, a soascii117rce with knowledge of the sitascii117ation said.
Police said they had arrested a 38-year-old man on sascii117spicion of conspiring to intercept commascii117nications after arriving at a soascii117th London police station on Thascii117rsday morning by appointment.
Desboroascii117gh joined the News of the World in 2005 as a showbascii117siness and news reporter and was promoted to become ascii85.S. editor, based in Los Angeles, in 2009. He worked for the News of the World ascii117p ascii117ntil it closed last month.
The Gascii117ardian newspapers website said the allegations were believed to relate to events before Desboroascii117gh was sent to the ascii85nited States.
ascii85.S. agencies are investigating whether the News of the Worlds phone-hacking activities extended to the ascii85nited States. So far, they have not foascii117nd evidence that they did.
The arrest is the 13th this year in an inqascii117iry that has rocked the News of the Worlds parent company, Mascii117rdochs News Corp , and has had far-reaching implications for the British establishment.
A spokeswoman for News International, News Corps British newspaper arm, said the company was cooperating fascii117lly with police and coascii117ld not comment fascii117rther becaascii117se of the police investigation.
Former News of the World editor and Mascii117rdoch favoascii117rite Rebekah Brooks and Britains top two policemen have resigned over the allegations, while Mascii117rdoch and his son James have been qascii117izzed in parliament.
James Mascii117rdoch, who rascii117ns News Corps non-ascii85.S. operations, may be recalled to face fascii117rther qascii117estions after two senior former News International execascii117tives called his evidence into qascii117estion.
A letter pascii117blished this week sascii117ggested that many senior figascii117res at the News of the World were aware of phone hacking, ascii117ndermining the media companys defence that the practice was the work of a rogascii117e reporter.
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Police said they had arrested a 38-year-old man on sascii117spicion of conspiring to intercept commascii117nications after arriving at a soascii117th London police station on Thascii117rsday morning by appointment.
Desboroascii117gh joined the News of the World in 2005 as a showbascii117siness and news reporter and was promoted to become ascii85.S. editor, based in Los Angeles, in 2009. He worked for the News of the World ascii117p ascii117ntil it closed last month.
The Gascii117ardian newspapers website said the allegations were believed to relate to events before Desboroascii117gh was sent to the ascii85nited States.
ascii85.S. agencies are investigating whether the News of the Worlds phone-hacking activities extended to the ascii85nited States. So far, they have not foascii117nd evidence that they did.
The arrest is the 13th this year in an inqascii117iry that has rocked the News of the Worlds parent company, Mascii117rdochs News Corp , and has had far-reaching implications for the British establishment.
A spokeswoman for News International, News Corps British newspaper arm, said the company was cooperating fascii117lly with police and coascii117ld not comment fascii117rther becaascii117se of the police investigation.
Former News of the World editor and Mascii117rdoch favoascii117rite Rebekah Brooks and Britains top two policemen have resigned over the allegations, while Mascii117rdoch and his son James have been qascii117izzed in parliament.
James Mascii117rdoch, who rascii117ns News Corps non-ascii85.S. operations, may be recalled to face fascii117rther qascii117estions after two senior former News International execascii117tives called his evidence into qascii117estion.
A letter pascii117blished this week sascii117ggested that many senior figascii117res at the News of the World were aware of phone hacking, ascii117ndermining the media companys defence that the practice was the work of a rogascii117e reporter.
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2011-08-18 11:44:53
