British Post Office scandal
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title:
British Post Office scandal
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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 false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office. Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but n
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Ongoing UK legal and political scandal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
date created:
2015-03-29T02:30:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:28:18Z
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