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| Operation Elveden: Mirror and Star journalists held | |
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| Police investigating corrupt payments have arrested two journalists as part of Operation Elveden. | |
| Sunday Mirror crime reporter Justin Penrose and Tom Savage, deputy news editor of the Daily Star Sunday, are being held at separate police stations. | |
| They are being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office. | |
| The newspapers' owners - Trinity Mirror and Express Newspapers - said they were cooperating with authorities. | |
| Trinity Mirror also said officers searching Mr Penrose's desk had taken away "various items", including his computer. | |
| The Metropolitan Police's Operation Elveden was set up to investigate alleged inappropriate payments to police and public officials by journalists. | |
| 'Confidential sources' | |
| A spokesman for the Met said: "Today's arrests relate to suspected payments to a public official and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately. | A spokesman for the Met said: "Today's arrests relate to suspected payments to a public official and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately. |
| "A 37-year-old man was arrested at his home in Kent, and a 34-year-old man at his home in south-east London at approximately 06:00 this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt (contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906) and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office (contrary to common law)." | "A 37-year-old man was arrested at his home in Kent, and a 34-year-old man at his home in south-east London at approximately 06:00 this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt (contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906) and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office (contrary to common law)." |
| Mr Penrose has worked for the Sunday Mirror since 2004, becoming crime correspondent in 2006. | |
| In previous written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, Mr Penrose said the newspaper never paid police for stories. | In previous written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, Mr Penrose said the newspaper never paid police for stories. |
| Mr Penrose is not the only Mirror journalist to be questioned recently by Operation Elveden police. | Mr Penrose is not the only Mirror journalist to be questioned recently by Operation Elveden police. |
| On 4 July, former Daily Mirror journalist Greig Box-Turnbull, 37, who worked for the newspaper until March, was one of three people arrested by officers investigating corrupt payments. | On 4 July, former Daily Mirror journalist Greig Box-Turnbull, 37, who worked for the newspaper until March, was one of three people arrested by officers investigating corrupt payments. |
| A prison officer, 46, and a 50-year-old woman were also held. | A prison officer, 46, and a 50-year-old woman were also held. |
| Twenty-nine bailed | |
| Some 41 people have been arrested as part of Operation Elveden, which is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, which is looking into phone hacking. | Some 41 people have been arrested as part of Operation Elveden, which is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, which is looking into phone hacking. |
| In total, 34 journalists, former journalists and newspaper executives have been formally arrested as part of the phone hacking, corrupt payments and computer misuse investigations. | |
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