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Sunday Mirror confirms phone hacking investigation Sunday Mirror confirms phone-hacking investigation
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The owner of the Sunday Mirror has confirmed police are investigating alleged phone hacking by former staff. The publisher of the Sunday Mirror is under investigation over alleged phone hacking, its parent company has said.
Trinity Mirror said its subsidiary MGN, which publishes the Sunday Mirror, was being investigated by the Metropolitan Police. Several Sunday Mirror journalists have been arrested over hacking, and Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) itself is now being investigated.
Earlier this year the Met said it was looking into hacking allegations relating to the Mirror group. Trinity Mirror said police were at a "very early stage" of examining if MGN was "criminally liable" for alleged crimes by former staff.
Trinity said police were at a "very early stage in investigating whether MGN is criminally liable". A Trinity spokeswoman said the group did "not accept wrongdoing".
A Trinity spokeswoman said the group did "not accept wrongdoing within its business and takes these allegations seriously". BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said MGN had joined News UK, which published the now defunct News of the World, under "corporate" investigation.
She added: "It is too soon to know how these matters will progress and further updates will be made if there are any significant developments." Trinity's spokeswoman said MGN "has been notified by the Metropolitan Police that they are at a very early stage in investigating whether MGN is criminally liable for the alleged unlawful conduct by previous employees in relation to phone hacking on the Sunday Mirror".
She said the group "takes these allegations seriously", adding: "It is too soon to know how these matters will progress and further updates will be made if there are any significant developments."
One of the Sunday Mirror journalists arrested was former editor Tina Weaver, who worked at the paper between 2001 and 2012, and was detained in a dawn raid by the Met in March.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "As with any investigation we carry out, we do not identify suspects or anybody arrested or anybody we may we wish to speak to.
"That goes for corporations the same as it does for individuals."
Trinity Mirror's share price dropped by more than 6% soon after it announced the police investigation, although it later recovered.