A former Met Police officer and a journalist from The Sun are to be charged in connection with alleged illegal payments for information.
Paul Flattley and Sun defence editor Virginia Wheeler will be charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office, prosecutors said.
The officer was allegedly paid more than £6,000 for information, including about the death of a 14-year-old girl.
Eight people have now been charged in connection with the payments probe.
The charges come as a result of Operation Elveden, Scotland Yard's inquiry into alleged payments made to police and public officials by journalists, launched in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
'Suspects and victims'Alison Levitt QC, the principal legal advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "We have concluded, following a careful review of the evidence, that former Metropolitan Police Service police constable, Paul Flattley, and Virginia Wheeler, a journalist at The Sun newspaper, should be charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office."
- Dec 2011: DCI April Casburn - convicted of misconduct in a public office, January 2013
- Jan 2012: Serving Met Police constable Paul Flattley, charged with misconduct, January 2013
- Feb 2012: Serving Surrey officer
- May 2012: Retired Met officer, specialist operations command
- Aug 2012: Serving Sussex officer
- Sept 2012: Serving Wiltshire officer
- Jan 2013: Serving Met officer, specialist operations command
- Jan 2013: Serving Met officer, specialist operations command
Her statement described how Mr Flattley was allegedly paid about £4,000 in the form of cheques and £2,450 in cash by the Sun newspaper between 25 May 2008 and 13 September 2011.
At the time he was a serving police constable with the Met, meaning he allegedly breached the terms of his employment.
Ms Levitt continued: "The information provided included information about the tragic death of a 14-year-old girl, as well as details about both suspects and victims of accidents, incidents and crimes.
"This included, but was not limited to, information about high-profile individuals and those associated with them."
Operation Elveden runs alongside Operation Weeting, the investigation into alleged phone hacking, primarily at the News of the World.
A third investigation, Operation Tuleta, is probing the alleged hacking of emails to obtain private information by journalists.
Charges and convictionsSome 56 people have been arrested under Operation Elveden, eight of whom have been serving or retired police officers.
Eight people have been charged by the CPS, including former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, Sun chief reporter John Kay and Ministry of Defence employee Bettina Jordan-Barber.
The trio, along with David Cameron's former spokesman Andy Coulson and the former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, are due to appear at the Old Bailey for a plea hearing on 8 March.
Earlier this month Det Ch Insp April Casburn, 53, of the Met Police was the first to be convicted as a result of Operation Elveden of trying to sell information on the phone-hacking probe to the News of the World.
She will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 1 February.
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