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The Post Office told the select committee in December that legal fees had made up £136m of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020, which is around 27% of the ...
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 ...
The Post Office spent £82m in the 12 months to 31 March, £38m the previous 12 months, and £12m in the year prior to that. The results also show to what extent legal costs and redress are ...
The ITV show, “Mr. Bates vs the Post Office,” told the story of branch manager Alan Bates, played by Toby Jones, who has spent nearly two decades trying to expose the scandal and exonerate his ...
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 ...
A Post Office spokesperson said: “Post Office has co-operated fully and openly with the Metropolitan Police since early 2020 to provide whatever information it needs for its investigations.
The Post Office said in a press release in response it would have no objection to relinquishing its role: “While £179 million ($229 million) has been delivered in redress to victims of this ...
The scandal has recently come back into the spotlight following ITV’s four-part drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Here, the PA news agency looks at what the scandal is all about: – What is ...