Powerful tabloid chiefs campaigning to stop Leveson Two face questions over ‘buried’ £150,000 payments to the private detective charged with illegal hacking.
The Daily Mail group kept quiet about the substantial sums of money secretly paid to a private detective – even after the police began probing his criminal conduct.
Steve Whittamore raked in £150,000 from the controversial publisher even after he had been raided.
Much of the money was given to him after he had been convicted for unlawful data theft.
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