LONDON (AP) — A man who provided protection for the former chief executive of News International has been charged in relation to Britain’s wide-ranging phone-hacking investigation, British authorities said Friday.

Scotland Yard said David Johnson, 47, allegedly conspired with Rebekah Brooks and five others in July 2011 to conceal computers and other items from officers investigating allegations of phone hacking and bribery at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World and The Sun tabloids.