Rupert Murdoch flies in to UK to address News Int staff
News Corp chief set for talks with Sun staff over corrupt payment scandal.
By Press Gazette Published 17 February 2012
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch is in the UK to take charge of the latest crisis involving The Sun.
Murdoch, who touched down in a private plane at Luton Airport last night, is expected to speak to staff at the Wapping headquarters of his British newspapers later.
Ten current and former senior reporters and executives at The Sun have been arrested since November over alleged corrupt payments to public officials.
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Wonder what is going to happen to Murdoch under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (did he allow the Currant Bung to bribe public servants)?
Did anyone in the last government know it was happening and did not prevent it?