Media executives charged for ‘paying’ UK officials

Top executives of media groups under the UK portfolio of mogul Rupert Murdoch have been charged for allegedly bribing to British officials for stories that appeared in the group’s various print publications, especially the tabloids. Murdoch protégé Rebekah Brooks was charged with conspiracy over alleged illegal payments to a Ministry of Defence employee, while Andy Coulson, another former Murdoch employee who went on to work for Prime Minister David Cameron, have also been charged of conspiring to make illegal payments to officials for information relating to the royal family. The charges against Coulson, Brooks and the other suspects were the result of a Metropolitan Police investigation that was launched in conjunction with police inquiries into alleged phone and computer hacking, which led to the shuttering of the Murdoch’s News of the World in 2011.


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