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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 ...
Capture was rolled out in Post Office branches in 1992, before being replaced by Fujitsu’s Horizon software in 1999. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has pledged to provide redress for ...
In December 2019, a High Court judge ruled that Horizon contained a number of “bugs, errors and defects” and there was a “material risk” that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were ...
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 judge survived an attempt by the Post Office to have him recused, but by the time he issued a draft judgment on Horizon issues, which found that the systems contained bugs, errors and defects, the litigants had run out of funding and accepted a settlement of £57.75 million from the Post Office. [7]
The PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next.
The business secretary has said the Post Office’s ... and I want to make sure the system ... More than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after faulty Horizon accounting ...
Prosecutions were conducted based on revenue shortfalls identified by the Post Office's Horizon computer system. These were erroneous and the result of bugs and errors in the system. [16] Post Office officials knew about the bugs as early as 2002, but chose to continue with the prosecutions regardless. [17] [18]