Victims of IT scandal in UK postal service will get fresh compensation
The British government has announced a fresh scheme to compensate victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, which saw sub-postmasters wrongfully prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud because of errors in a Fujitsu-built finance system.
The new scheme is set to be delivered directly by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy , with independent claims facilitators following an alternative dispute resolution model, providing a means for parties to settle cases without the cost or time required to go to court. The government said it devised the scheme following an “extensive consultation” with postmasters.
The Post Office Horizon saga is one of the biggest scandals to hit public-sector IT management in the UK in the last 20 years and has been subject to a BBC Panorama investigation, with journalist Nick Wallis revealing evidence of the extent of the cover-up. The saga began after the Post Office relied on evidence from its Fujitsu-made Horizon branch office management IT system when it privately prosecuted a large number of subpostmasters during the 2000s and early 2010s. While the system was known to throw up accounting errors, managers did not warn subpostmasters. Faced with big shortfalls between reported revenues and takings, some desperate subpostmasters resorted to putting their own money into their franchised branches to balance the books.
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