Rebekah Brooks questioned by police in payments probe

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was questioned by police about payments to Ministry of Defence officials yesterday, while answering bail in Milton Keynes, according to reports.

Officers from Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged media payments to police and other public officials, are understood to have asked Brooks about evidence handed over by News Corpopration's management and standards committee relating to MoD sources.

Brooks was first arrested by detectives last July as part of Operation Weeting, investigating allegations of phone hacking, days after she quit News International. She was rearrested last week with her husband Charlie on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The Metropolitan police said in a statement: "A 43-year-old woman returned on bail and was questioned at a police station in Buckinghamshire by officers from Operation Elveden.

"She has been re-bailed to return to a London police station on a date in May pending further inquiries. We are not prepared to discuss the matter further."

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