Over the past six years, the British public broadcaster has used a private investigator 232 times. The British public broadcaster has spent €370,574 on private investigators over the past six years. Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, said this at the Leveson committee. This committee investigates reprehensible practices in the British press, following the wiretapping scandal at media magnate Rupert Murdoch's newspapers.

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