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General News 7/17/2011 at 3:43 PM EDT H4'ed 7/17/11

BREAKING: UK 'Serious Fraud' Watchdog Opens News International Probe

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Britain's Channel 4 News is reporting that the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the agency charged with investigating and prosecuting large and complex fraud cases, has begun a preliminary investigation into News International, the parent company of News Corp's UK newspapers. The probe comes after Labor MP Tom Watson wrote a letter to the SFO, in which he called News Corps alleged payments to police a "gross misuse of shareholders' money." This latest revelation in the ongoing scandal comes just hours after former News International executive Rebekah Brooks was arrested in London, and Britain's Metro Police "Top Cop" Sir Paul Stephenson resigned in connection to the growing criminal scandal and public outrage.

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