£1bn 'is wasted on PO scandal'
Daily Record|January 03, 2024
THE Post Office scandal in which 555 postmasters were wrongly accused of theft has cost the taxpayer more than £1billion, say lawyers.
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£1bn 'is wasted on PO scandal'

Postmasters were sacked and jailed over apparently "missing" money. Some workers even committed suicide.

But the holes in the finances were actually due to a faulty accounting system introduced by the Post Office in 1999, Horizon, a product of International Computers Ltd.

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