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28 Feb, 2012

Police chief tells Leveson the Sun had ‘culture of illegal payments’ to sources – guardian.co.uk

Hours after Rupert Murdoch’s defiant gamble of launching a Sunday edition of the Sun, the head of the police investigations into illegal behaviour by journalists spelled out startling details of what she called a “culture of illegal payments” at the title.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson inquiry that one public official received more than £80,000 in total from the paper, currently edited by Dominic Mohan. Regular “retainers” were apparently being paid to police and others, with one Sun journalist drawing more than £150,000 over the years to pay off his sources.

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