Rebekah Brooks will return to Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp as chief executive of its UK division, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Brooks is returning one year after being cleared of all charges related to the phone-hacking scandal that rocked Britain about four years ago, the Financial Times reported on Friday.  

Her return could be as soon as early September, according to the newspaper.

News Corp was not immediately available for comment.

News UK, Murdoch's British newspaper arm, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Reuters reported in March that the former News of the World editor was in talks about returning to the media conglomerate.

Brooks rose in 14 years from the most junior newsroom position to edit the country's biggest selling newspaper.

She quit in July 2011 amid revelations that staff at the News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phones of thousands of people to break news.

Brooks was arrested and charged with being part of a conspiracy to hack into phones to find exclusive stories, of authorising illegal payments to public officials and of trying to hinder the police investigation.

She denied all the charges and was found not guilty in June 2014 after an eight-month trial.

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