Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is apparently still on the payroll of the Rupert Murdoch owned group, weeks after she quit under pressure over the phone hacking scandal, a media report said.
More than three weeks after she handed in her resignation on July 15, it has transpired that she has not yet fully left Murdoch's empire, the Daily Mail said in its report.
The former News of the World editor may have stood down as CEO of the company, but her resignation as director is still "underway", a spokesman for the business was quoted as saying.
"And questions put to Mr Murdoch's company and Mrs Brooks' representatives about whether the 43-year-old is still on the business' payroll have been met with a wall of silence," the report said.
A NI spokeswoman said: "News International declines to comment on the financial arrangements of any individual."
Her representative said he would not comment on financial affairs.
The latest Companies House report about positions in Murdoch's sprawling News International empire shows that Brooks is still listed as the director, the report said.
Companies must inform Companies House, the official government register of UK companies, about any changes made to directors within 14 days of the change.
"Up to this moment in time Companies House has not received the required documentation which would allow us to formally alter the public record to show that Ms Rebekah Brooks has indeed resigned from News International Newspapers Limited," a spokesman for Companies House was quoted as
saying.
But a News International spokeswoman insisted it was only a matter of time before her resignation as director was accepted and appropriate records would be updated.
"Rebekah Brooks resigned as CEO of the Company on 15 July 2011... The process for her to resign as a director of the Company is currently underway and will be filed at Companies House shortly," she said.
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