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April 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Officers from Scotland Yard’s Operation Elveden made the arrests at addresses in Kent and Lancashire, bringing to 26 the number of people who have been held since July 2011 as part of the investigation, related to the Metropolitan police phone hacking probe.
Scotland Yard said the Sun’s 36-year-old royal editor Duncan Larcombe was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in Kent on suspicion of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office.
Moreover, they confirmed that a 42-year-old man, a former serviceman, and a 38-year-old woman were arrested at their home in Lancashire at about 6am.
The man was held on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and the woman on suspicion of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office.
“Today’s operation is the result of information provided to police by News Corporation’s management standards committee,” said a police statement..
“It relates to suspected payments to a public official and is not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately.”
Operation Elveden opened after Scotland Yard was widely criticized for its ties to journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct newspaper News of the World.
Investigations into the phone hacking scandal were carried out from 2005 to 2007 when a reporter, Clive Goodman, was blamed for hacking the phones of celebrities and others to get story scoops.
In 2009, after the Guardian published a series of phone hacking allegations, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson met with Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates.
In July 2011, Stepheson resigned over links to the scandal. One day later, Yates also stepped down due to mishandling the case.
Furthermore, the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications director, Andy Coulson, was arrested last year over accusations of bribing police officers.
Last month, Dick Fedorcio, Scotland Yard’s media chief, also resigned so that he could avoid discipline charges after the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) decided he had to answer questions regarding his decision to hire Neil Wallis, a former executive at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid.
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