Three held in 'illegal payments' probe raids Officers carried out searches at the homes of those under arrest. Scotland Yard said in a statement: "Today's operation is the result of information provided to police by News Corporation's management standards committee. It relates to suspected payments to a public official and is not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately. The management standards committee was set up by Rupert Murdoch's parent company News Corp in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World last July. It is carrying out internal investigations relating to Mr Murdoch's remaining UK papers - The Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times - and is working closely with the police team investigating alleged phone-hacking and corrupt payments to police and other public officials. Meanwhile, the files handed over to the CPS relate to four journalists, one police officer and six other individuals and cover a range of alleged offences stemming from the investigation which began when the full extent of the phone hacking scandal was exposed last year. The four files, which were handed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) within the past few weeks, relate to a variety of alleged offences covering journalists from beyond the now-defunct News of the World. While the CPS refused to reveal the identities of those journalists named in the files, it is believed those whose cases are with prosecutors include Mrs Brooks, Amelia Hill, a reporter on The Guardian, and the former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck. A total of 43 people are on bail in connection with the various police operations and it is thought more files will be passed to the CPS in the coming weeks.