According to Agrizzi, more than 80 people received monthly illegal payments from Bosasa.

By the late 1970s the sport was rife with rumours of illegal payments.

Goodman is now on trial accused with Coulson of making illegal payments to police.

Planned Parenthood, which denied any illegal payments, has faced similar challenges from several Republican governors.

Brooks appeared in court earlier on Thursday accused of making illegal payments to public officials.

Lucas told the Observer: Johnson and Gove both knew about the illegal payments to BeLeave.

Both have denied conspiring to hack into phones or making illegal payments to public officials.

Planned Parenthood has denied taking any illegal payments, calling the videos distortions of fetal-tissue donations.

He and Brooks also face two charges each of making illegal payments to public officials.

Planned Parenthood has denied any illegal payments, calling the videos distortions of the issue of fetal-tissue donations.

Coulson has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to intercept voicemails and authorizing illegal payments to public officials.

The company denied knowledge of illegal payments.

Police are also investigating illegal payments to public officials, including police officers, and whether staff hacked into computers.

They also said that judicial authorities from the United States had helped Greece track down the illegal payments.

Retired police officers who served at that time say that many senior officers were also accepting illegal payments.

That followed an inquiry when AWB was found to have made illegal payments to win contracts in Iraq.