Breaking news- Olympic stadium- corruption claim?

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Telegraph today - part of article about them possibly dropping appeal:

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Tottenham’s battle to take over the Olympic Stadium has been long and bruising. West Ham were selected as preferred bidder for the stadium in February, and Tottenham’s attempts to overturn that decision have caused anger in government and tension with the mayor.

The club’s conduct is also the subject of two separate inquiries that could result in criminal charges.

Both the Metropolitan Police and the Information Commissioner’s Office are examining allegations that private investigators working for Spurs illegally obtained telephone and bank records of key officials involved in the stadium bidding process.

Scotland Yard confirmed this week that the investigation is being handled by the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crimes Unit.

The ICO is the body that oversees the Data Protection Act and investigates alleged breaches such as “blagging” private records, and the illegal interception of telephone communications including “hacking” voicemail messages.

Telegraph Sport understands that there are concerns that the phone records of the OPLC chairman, Baroness Margaret Ford, as well as chief executive Andrew Altman and members of a board that includes former Arsenal director Keith Edelman, may have been accessed.

West Ham deputy chairman Karren Brady has told police that she believes her phone was hacked, describing it as an “attempt to blacken my name and West Ham’s”.

The allegations that personal data had been illegally obtained emerged when it was revealed by The Sunday Times that a director of the OPLC, Dionne Knight, had been paid £20,000 by West Ham for consultancy work carried out during the bid process.

She was immediately suspended by the OPLC as her dual role raised questions about the integrity of the bid process, with Spurs adamant that the procedures and the decision to select West Ham were fundamentally unfair, flawed and, they will claim today, illegal.

The OPLC said on Monday that an independent inquiry had established that Knight’s moonlighting for West Ham had not compromised the bidding process.

According to The Sunday Times, Knight’s role with West Ham, whose director Ian Tompkins is her partner, was revealed to Tottenham by private investigators retained by the club to assist in its stadium bid.

The newspaper alleged that the investigators had cross-checked the phone records of Altman and Brady to establish if there had been inappropriate contact in the final stages of the bid.

Knight and Tompkins are also thought to be pursuing complaints to the police.

Knight’s solicitor, Colum Smith, said on Monday that the “data hacking” of his client was “a live issue to bring before the courts”.

Tottenham declined to comment on the allegations because the legal process over the stadium is ongoing.

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