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Paula Anne Vennells (born 21 February 1959) is a British former businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. She is also an ordained Anglican priest who ceased her clerical duties in 2021.
Watch as Paula Vennells' closing statement was heard in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Tuesday, 17 December. More than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after faulty ...
More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015.
The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and ...
The former chief executive began her evidence to the Horizon IT Inquiry on Wednesday by apologising to subpostmasters and their families.
In September 2019, Read took up the role of CEO at Post Office Limited after Paula Vennells stepped down. [12] His appointment came at a time when the Post Office was ceasing to receive government subsidy, and when long-running litigation came to a head concerning actions (including prosecutions) taken by the Post Office against self-employed ...
Ms Vennells was chief executive of the Post Office from 2012 until 2019. ... The decision by former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to hand back her CBE comes after a dramatic fall from grace ...
Post Office Limited, formerly Post Office Counters Limited and commonly known as the Post Office, is a state-owned retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and identity verification services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 ...