Ex-prison worker arrested in Operation Elveden corruption probe

Operation Elveden detectives have arrested a former prison worker as part of their probe into corrupt payments by newspapers to public officials.

The 66-year old man has been taken from his home in Buckinghamshire to a police station in Thames Valley.

The man is the 84^th person to be held as part of Operation Elveden. He is being questioned about receiving money from journalists for providing stories.  

The man is a former member of HM Prison Service staff and was bailed to a date in May 2014. 

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The Elveden probe is running alongside Operation Weeting, which is concerned with phone-hacking and Operation Tuleta which concentrates on computer-hacking and privacy breaches.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is supervising the three operations. 

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