Hugh Grant has urged U.K. police to open a new criminal investigation into Rupert Murdochs News Group Newspapers (NGN) in the wake of Prince Harrys landmark settlement, saying the job is not done by any means.

On Wednesday, the Duke of Sussex settled in last-minute negotiations as his trial against the publisher of The Sun tabloid kicked off. He had brought the case to NGN, claiming his privacy had been violated byalleged phone hackingand unlawful information gathering had been carried out by journalists and private investigators working forThe Sunand the defunctNews of the Worldbetween 1996 and 2011. NGN offered the Duke a full and unequivocal apology. British star Grant recently nominated for a lead actor BAFTA for his performance in Heretic also settled a privacy claim against NGN last year, later explaining he may have faced a bill of up to 10 million ($12.4m) even if he had won. He had accused The Sun of using private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house.

Now, Grant is renewing calls from others for further action to be taken, telling BBC Radio 4s Today program on Friday that his and Harrys settlements showed a civil case was not the right instrument to get to the real truth of what happened at the newspaper. He added that NGN had gamed the civil courts to silence victims and a criminal case is now necessary.

Thats what theyve done consistently over the last 10 years, the actor said. Theyve spent 1bn to make sure these things are never looked at in court and you dont get proper judicial findings. I think what theyre terrified of is that those findings would trigger a new criminal inquiry.

Grant also said that a criminal investigation is required as people working at The Sun at the time of the alleged crimes were still in great positions of power.

He added: A lot of the foot soldiers for those newspapers have now come over to our side [] to say this is awful. Weve been punished, weve been to prison, weve paid fines, weve lost our jobs. But the people who commanded all this, theyre still there.

He called on Britains Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Metropolitan Police to delve further.