Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens is being investigated over claims he failed to disclose information to the Macpherson inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence murder probe.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed it was investigating the peer following a referral from the London force.
The probe was launched by the watchdog after a complaint by the murdered teenager's father Neville Lawrence last October.
The Met said the complaint was in relation to Lord Stevens' role when he was deputy commissioner and disclosure to the Macpherson Inquiry 17 years ago.
Sky' crime correspondent Martin Brunt said: "The accusation is when he was deputy commissioner in 1998 he had told Lord Macpherson in the course of his inquiry that no officer or former officer involved in giving evidence to that inquiry had been under investigation for corruption."
Brunt added he spoken to someone very close to Lord Stevens and he was "very angry he was subject to this investigation".
The Macpherson Inquiry into Scotland Yard's handling of the killing of the black teenager found evidence of "institutional racism" within the Met.
Imran Khan, the solicitor for Stephen's mother Doreen, told Sky News: "Corruption was a very important issue as far as the inquiry was concerned.
"There was suspicion that the reason that suspects were not arrested as they should have been in time was because there was concern there was corruption amongst the police and suspects involved."
He added: "Had information come to the inquiry at that time, which led to those questions being answered, then it may be that Sir William Macpherson would have come to the conclusion that corruption played a part in the failure of the investigation as well as institutional racism."
Mr Lawrence reportedly asked the IPCC to examine whether senior officers provide "full, frank and truthful" information to the inquiry.
He also requested the IPCC look into claims that hundreds of files on past major police corruption probes were shredded, it was reported.
Mr Lawrence told Channel 4 News: "I'm glad that they're actually doing what they were supposed to do because this is not the first time that we've asked them to look into it and they've come back with a negative result.
"I'm hoping that this time they're going to come back this time with a result that can help us to get further into the truth of what was happening during the investigation into Stephen's death."
Sky's Martin Brunt said a source close to Lord Stevens pointed out that an inquiry into similar accusations three years ago - the so-called Ellison Inquiry - had effectively cleared Lord Stevens of the allegations.
Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he was stabbed to death by a group of up to six white youths in an unprovoked racist attack at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993.
A Met Police statement said: "Following the receipt of a public complaint in relation to Lord John Stevens, former Commissioner, the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] made a referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission on Tuesday, 4 November 2014.
"The complaint has been made in relation to Lord Stevens' role as the then Deputy Commissioner and disclosure to the Macpherson Inquiry.
"This issue was raised in the Stephen Lawrence Independent Review by Mark Ellison QC, published on 6 March, where he concluded there were defects in the level of information that the MPS revealed to the Inquiry."
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