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List Of Persons Arrested In Phone-hacking Scandal
This List of persons arrested in phone-hacking scandal is a chronological listing of individuals arrested in conjunction with the illegal acquisition of confidential information by employees and other agents of news media companies referred to as the " phone hacking scandal." Dates indicate approximately when each arrest was made. The police investigation ("Operation") under which each arrest was made is shown in parentheses. Background In 2004, ten arrests were made under Operation Nigeria following placement of a police listening device in the office of private investigator Jonathan Rees and a subsequent raid on the home of Stephen Whittamore. Recorded conversations and seized documents established that Paul Marshall, a former civilian communications officer based at Tooting police station in London, provided confidential information to Alan King, a retired police officer, who passed it along to private investigator John Boyall, who in turn gave it to private investigator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Scotland Yard Sign And Building In London
New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 Songs * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * "New" (No Doubt song), 1999 *"new", by Loona from '' Yves'', 2017 *"The New", by Interpol from ''Turn On the Bright Lights'', 2002 Acronyms * Net economic welfare, a proposed macroeconomic indicator * Net explosive weight, also known as net explosive quantity * Network of enlightened Women, a conservative university women's organization * Next Entertainment World, a South Korean film distribution company Identification codes * Nepal Bhasa language ISO 639 language code * New Century Financial Corporation (NYSE stock abbreviation) * Northeast Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion in the northeastern United States Transport * New Orleans Lakefront A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Edmondson
Ian Edmondson (born ) is a British tabloid journalist. He was the news editor at the ''News of the World''. Edmondson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in April 2011 during the Operation Weeting phone-hacking investigation. Career Edmondson worked for ''News of the World'' twice. Before landing his first position at ''News of the World'' Edmondson worked as a freelance reporter. He was initially hired by ''News of the World'' as a general news reporter. He went on to spend 18 months as the paper's crime correspondent before moving to rival tabloid ''The People'' in 2000 as assistant news editor. He progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor (news) in 2003. Edmondson was hired to the ''News of the World'' editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson's deputy editor in November 2004. Coulson promoted Edmondson to assistant editor of the news department in October 2005. A former ''News of the World'' reporter said that E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Superintendent
Chief superintendent is a senior rank in police forces, especially in those organised on the British model. Rank insignia of chief superintendent File:Sa-police-chief-superintendent.png, South Australia Police File:RCMP Chief Superintendent.png, Royal Canadian Mounted Police File:Distintivo Superintendente-Chefe PSP.png, Portuguese Public Security Police File:Chief Superintendant Epaulette.svg, UK police chief superintendent epaulette Chief superintendent by country Australia In Australia, a chief superintendent is senior to the rank of superintendent in all the Australian police forces excepting the Western Australia Police. It is junior to the rank of commander (Victoria Police, South Australia Police) and the rank of assistant commissioner (New South Wales Police, Queensland Police). Officers wear the insignia of a crown over two Bath stars (or in the case of the New South Wales Police, a crown over two stars) the same as a colonel in the army. Canada In the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News International
News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group) is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher of ''The Times'', '' The Sunday Times'', and '' The Sun'' newspapers; its former publications include the '' Today'', '' News of the World'', and '' The London Paper'' newspapers. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc.The Times Online Style Guide – see entry for News International for change from plc to Ltd On 31 May 2011, the company name was changed from News International Limited to NI Group Limited, and on 26 June 2013 to News UK. History Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Tuleta
Operation Tuleta is a British police investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service into allegations of Hacker (computer security), computer hacking, related to the News International phone hacking scandal. As of June 2011, it was reported to have six officers working for it. According to a report in the London ''Evening Standard'', Operation Tuleta was at that time a "scoping exercise" prior to a possible full investigation. On 29 July 2011, Channel 4 News reported a statement from the Metropolitan Police: "Some aspects of this operation will move forward to a formal investigation. There will be a new team reporting to DAC Sue Akers". This followed a statement given to Channel 4 News by former army intelligence corporal Ian Hurst (aka Martin Ingram): "Police officers working for Operation Tuleta have informed me that they have identified information of evidential value in regard to my family's computer being illegally accessed over a sustained period of 2006. The decision by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant
Sergeant ( abbreviated to Sgt. and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces. The alternative spelling, ''serjeant'', is used in The Rifles and other units that draw their heritage from the British light infantry. Its origin is the Latin , 'one who serves', through the French term . The term ''sergeant'' refers to a non-commissioned officer placed above the rank of a corporal, and a police officer immediately below a lieutenant in the US, and below an inspector in the UK. In most armies, the rank of sergeant corresponds to command of a squad (or section). In Commonwealth armies, it is a more senior rank, corresponding roughly to a platoon second-in-command. In the United States Army, sergeant is a more junior rank corresponding to a squad- (12 person) or platoon- (36 person) leader. More senior non-commissioned ranks are often variations on sergeant, for example staff sergeant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Miskiw
Greg Miskiw (born Ihor Miskiw; December 1949 – 25 September 2021) was a British journalist and news editor of the defunct tabloid newspaper the '' News of the World''. Career Miskiw was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in December 1949 and is of Ukrainian descent. He began a career in journalism after taking the National Council for the Training of Journalists' one-year full-time entry course at Highbury Technical College, Portsmouth, in 1968-69. Mirror Group During the 1980s, Miskiw worked as a reporter for tabloid papers published by the Mirror Group. He was arrested by the Polish authorities for visa irregularities in 1981 while working for the '' Sunday Mirror''. He later moved to work for the ''Daily Mirror''. News of the World By 2001 Miskiw was working for the ''News of the World'' as assistant editor on the news desk. There he helped to co-ordinate the work of Mazher Mahmood (also known as the fake sheikh), particularly Mahmood's taping of frank unguarded comments by So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Kuttner
Stuart Kuttner (born 1939/1940) is a former newspaper editor. He worked as the news editor for the '' London Evening Standard'' before joining the '' News of the World'' newspaper in 1980 first as a deputy editor, then as managing editor. He held the position for 22 years before stepping down from his post in 2009 and retiring to Woodford Green. He was arrested on 2 August 2011, in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal, but has now been acquitted. He was 71 at the time of his arrest. Sarah's Law Kuttner was closely involved with the campaign for Sarah's Law. It was for this work that he and a colleague were awarded the "team of the year" prize at the 2002 British Press Awards. Upon leaving the ''News of the World'' he stated that he would continue to work with the paper on "specialised projects" including campaigning for parents to be able to find out if registered sex offenders are resident in their area. Arrest Kuttner was arrested by appointment on 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Mary Brooks (; born 27 May 1968) is a British media executive and former journalist and newspaper editor. She has been chief executive officer of News UK since 2015. She was previously CEO of News International from 2009 to 2011 and was the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at ''News of the World'', from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of '' The Sun'', from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of ''News of the World'' from 2000 to 2003 when one of the stories which involved illegal phone hacking was published by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was found not guilty of conspiracy to hack voicemails, two counts of conspiracy to pay public officials and two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by a jur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Wallis
Neil John Wallis (born 4 October 1950) is a British former newspaper editor. He is currently a media consultant and media commentator. Early life Wallis was born in Lincolnshire. He attended Skegness Grammar School. Wallis left school with four O Levels, an AS Level and an A Level. Career Journalism Wallis gained his first employment working for the ''Skegness Standard'', leaving after six months to work for the ''Worksop Guardian'' as part of a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) scheme, during which he also studied at Richmond College of Further Education in Sheffield. Having passed his NCTJ exams, Wallis worked for ''The Northern Echo'' (in its Durham office) before becoming a senior reporter for the ''Manchester Evening News''. At this point in his career, Wallis became a Crime Reporter, giving talks to police officers on police-media relations, whilst also freelancing for ''The Sunday People'', progressing from the paper's Manchester desk to its Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Rubicon
Operation Rubicon (German language, German: ''Operation Rubikon''), until the late 1980s called Operation Thesaurus, was a secret operation by the West Germany, West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), lasting from 1970 to 1993 and 2018, respectively, to gather communication intelligence of encrypted government communications of other countries. This was accomplished through the sale of manipulated encryption technology (C-52 (cipher machine), CX-52) from Swiss-based Crypto AG, which was secretly owned and influenced by the two services from 1970 onwards. In a comprehensive CIA historical account of the operation leaked in early 2020, it was referred to as the "intelligence coup of the century" in a The Washington Post, ''Washington Post'' article. History The origins of Crypto AG go back to the Swedish engineer Arvid Damm; the company was founded in Switzerland in 1948 by the Swede Boris Hagelin. Crypto AG was considered on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, Cameron was educated at Heatherdown School, Eton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1988 to 1993 he worked at the Conservative Research Department, latterly assisting the Conservative Prime Minister John Major, before leaving politics to work for Carlton Communications in 1994. Becoming an MP in 2001, he served in the opposition shadow cabinet under Conservative leader Michael Howard, and succeeded Howard in 2005. Cameron sought to rebrand the Conserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
