A MAN and a woman from north-west London have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to police and public officials.
The pair were taken into custody at the same address at 6am today by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Operation Elveden and are being questioned at a central London police station.
They are the 28th and 29th arrests made by the team, whose enquiries are being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and whose work is in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the Met Police's inquiry into phone hacking.
In a statement, the Met Police said the 50-year-old man is an employee of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office contrary to common law and suspicion of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.

The 43-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and suspicion of money laundering offences under section 328 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
The statement confirmed today's arrests were the result of information provided to police by the management standards committee of News Corporation, the media company whose subsidiary News International publishes The Sun and The Times newspapers.