Operation Elveden

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Operation Elveden is a Metropolitan Police operation begun in the summer of 2011 under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers to investigate police corruption after evidence of bribery was handed over by the News of the World.[1]

On 19 April 2012, the police arrested the Suns royal editor Duncan Larcombe, and a member of the armed forces. In the following months they arrested two more Sun journalists including Neil Millard].[2]

Other journalists arrested in the operation came from the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Star Sunday.[3]

Notes

  1. Tom Watson & Martin Hickman, Dial M for Murdoch, News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain, Penguin Books, 2012, p.168.
  2. Tom Watson & Martin Hickman, Dial M for Murdoch, News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain, Penguin Books, 2012, p.263.
  3. Tom Watson & Martin Hickman, Dial M for Murdoch, News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain, Penguin Books, 2012, p.263.