Scotland Yard rocked by corruption scandal

July 07, 2013 18:10

Scotland Yard, one of the world's premier police forces, has been rocked by a major corruption scandal over claims that some of its most sensitive units had officers in the pay of Britain's gangsters.

Three Metropolitan police whistle-blowers say David Hunt, a London businessman named by a judge last week as the head of an organised crime network, used 'sleepers' inside the Yard to help him evade justice for three decades.

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