Scotland Yard launched the probe after learning that the News of the World had hacked into the phone of a slain teenager in that newspaper's quest for scoops.

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Gallen, Switzerland, said in a statement at the time of the plea that it had cooperated with the probe "within the bounds allowed for by Swiss law" since learning that it was under U.S. investigation.

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