Apparently, the Daily Star has apologised in print to former BBC CFO Zarin Patel over allegations of encouraging tax dodging - but, given the whacky world of Express Newspapers online, I'm blowed if I can find it.
An FOI discloses that the BBC spent £6,520.00 (excluding VAT) supporting Ms Patel's legal action. She claimed a Daily Star leader back in July 2012 meant she "had devised or connived in the BBC's deplorable practice of ordering its star employees, under pain of dismissal, to dodge tax by creating personal service companies so as to allow the BBC to save millions of pounds".
BBC internal legal effort is not costed in the response; letters secured a print apology from the Daily Mail over a similar story with days - a rare thing to come so quickly out of Derry Street.
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