 At the time his phone was hacked, Dizaei was a serving Commander of the MPS.During the Leveson Inquiry, Dick Fedorcio, the then director of public affairs at Scotland Yard, admitted to allowing News of the World journalist Lucy Panton to use his office and computer in Scotland Yard to write a critical story about Dizaei.The inquiry heard that Panton also used Fedorcio's email address to forward the story to the office.