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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 ...
The “malignant culture” of the Post Office destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system itself, an inquiry has heard. The Horizon IT Inquiry was told the Post ...
A public inquiry in to the scandal heard final submissions in December, where it took evidence from lawyers representing the Post Office, Horizon's creators Fujitsu, and the Department for ...
News. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. ... Four suspects have been identified by police investigating potential criminal charges as part of the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Metropolitan Police detectives are looking at “potential fraud offences” committed during the Horizon IT scandal. More than 700 Post Office branch managers were handed criminal convictions ...
A petition demanding compensation for people affected by the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is nearing 600,000 signatures, as campaigner Alan Bates gives evidence to the public inquiry into the ...
The new law will apply to sub-postmasters who ran local Post Office franchises using the software, their employees or family members who were prosecuted for theft, fraud, false accounting or ...
The Post Office and Fujitsu, the Japanese company behind Horizon, have both apologized for their roles in the scandal, which became particularly acute earlier this year after a television ...