The Management of the British trust News International knew in 2007 about the practice of wiretapping by journalists and tried to cover these activities, and disclosures are likely to block the acquisition by Rupert Murdoch of BSkyB satellite telecommunications company.
In this context, British Prime Minister Office sources confirmed that the Government lawyers develop a strategy to block the nine billion pound contract for the acquisition of BSkyB satellite telecommunications company, according to online edition of the newspaper The Independent.
With the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg threatening to abandon the alliance with conservatives to join the Labor party in blocking the transaction, a government source said: “We are working on a plan to suspend the agreement in parallel with the police investigation”.
Newspapers belonging to News International Trust revealed that an internal report in 2007 disocvered that the wiretapping of telephones by journalists was a widespread practice in the News of the World and that investigators had received bribes.
A member of the Board of the media trust has declared that the internal report was like “a time bomb”.
Changing the position of the Government regarding the purchase of a majority stake in satellite company BSkyB puts in an awkward situation Prime Minister David Cameron, who said last week that he can’t block the transaction.
Several politicians have revealed that the Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg could support the Labour motion that requires suspension of transaction in case the Culture Minister, Jeremy Hunt, will not block the agreement himself.