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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 ...
Here, the PA news agency looks at what the scandal is all about: – What is Horizon? The Horizon IT system is accounting software, owned by Japanese company Fujitsu, which saw accounts automated ...
The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted (privately and publicly) for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon. It was broadcast on four consecutive days from 1 January 2024.
Subpostmasters are self-employed business operators, who run Post Office branches under contract to the state-owned Post Office. [a] In 1999 the Post Office rolled out new electronic point of sale and accounting software, Horizon (produced and maintained by Fujitsu), to its network of over 11,000 branches. [1]
The Business Secretary has said the Post Office’s corporate culture is at the root of the Horizon scandal, but has insisted the organisation is still “an incredibly important institution in ...
The PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next.
Sir Alan Bates (born 1954 or 1955) is a former subpostmaster and a leading campaigner for victims of the British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of subpostmasters were accused of dishonesty when faulty Post Office accounting software created shortfalls in their accounts.
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