The Guardian
July 10 2009
The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, and the former Newcastle United manager Alan Shearer are among those whose private telephone messages were recorded by a private investigator working for the News of the World, according to sources familiar with the police investigation.
Both men are said to have left messages on the [...]
The Guardian
July 10 2009 with David Leigh
The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, last night set up a team to conduct “an urgent examination of the material that was supplied by the police to the CPS” in the 2006 News of the World court case. It is alleged that evidence was suppressed of systematic corporate [...]
The Guardian
July 9 2009
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than pounds 1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists [...]
The Guardian
July 9 2009
When the high court last summer ordered the News of the World to pay damages to Max Mosley for secretly filming him with prostitutes, the paper was furious. In an angry leader column, it insisted that public figures must maintain standards. “It is not for the powerful and the influential to run [...]
Why did it take six days and citizen journalism to shed light on Ian Tomlinson’s death? Nick Davies examines the role of the Independent Police Complaints Commission and asks who the media can trust.
The Guardian, April 27 2009
The family of Ian Tomlinson, who died at the G20 protest earlier this month, are planning to file [...]
The Guardian
March 14 2009
Switzerland’s decision yesterday (Friday) to play by international tax rules is the result of a great deal of political arm-twisting aided by the sting of scandal.
The long struggle to persuade the Swiss to abandon their bank secrecy is not yet over. There is still plenty of room for foot-dragging and hair-splitting and [...]
The Guardian
March 2009
Offshore havens who refuse to hand over information on tax dodgers face an unprecedented campaign of economic sanctions by the world’s most powerful countries.
The campaign, which is being promoted by the G20 group of developed nations, could see the United Kingdom targeting some of its own overseas territories including the Cayman Islands and [...]
The Guardian
February 2009
A hoard of banking files from the Caymans – one of the most secretive British tax havens – is being supplied to the US authorities by a whistleblower who claims they detail worldwide tax avoidance.
The Cayman Islands – Caribbean territories under ultimate UK control – are currently the target of reformers. Alastair Darling [...]
The Guardian
February 2009
Critics of Switzerland would say that the country and its banks are running an anti-social enterprise, in effect picking billions of dollars a year out of the pockets of others. It was the spectre of Switzerland that Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, sought to raise in parliament yesterday, as he [...]
