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September 4, 2013

‘Why is it ok to pursue journalists but not the City?’ ask MPs as Soca given deadline to reveal rogue investigator clients

By PA Mediapoint

A list of clients of rogue private detectives is to be published by Monday after a group of influential MPs handed the heads of a national police unit a shock ultimatum.

The names of 102 firms and individuals who allegedly used corrupt private investigators was handed from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) to the Home Affairs Select Committee earlier this year on condition it was not published – sparking a row over transparency.

Following a heated evidence session, Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the Committee, told Trevor Pearce, Soca director general and Stephen Rimmer, the Agency's interim chairman, they would publish the list on Monday if Soca did not do so first.

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