Murdoch Group: Settlement with further wiretapping victims
The media conglomerate News International has reached settlement agreements with additional victims of the phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom. Nine cases involving high-profile plaintiffs have been settled, a lawyer for the victims announced Wednesday during a court hearing in London.
Among those affected were comedian Steve Coogan, ex-footballer Paul
Gascoigne and the politician Simon Hughes. The group of the entrepreneur Rupert
Murdoch had made payments to them amounting to the equivalent of up to 157,000 francs.
offered. In the scandal surrounding the now defunct tabloid News of the World, settlements have already been reached with actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller, among others. Further lawsuits are still pending. (SDA/DAPD)
