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re: Postmasters SCANDAL: P.O. Bosses' CORRUPTION/BRIBES/THEFT & Threats REVEALED
The British Post Office: Incredible TRUE Story -Greatest Miscarriage of Justice in British Legal History Against INNOCENT PostMasters
Police Probe CORRUPT Post Office Officials Who Convicted 700 INNOCENT PostMasters -WHERE Did The Missing Money GO?
Police to Probe Post Office over 'potential fraud offences' in wake of Horizon scandal that resulted in more than 700 sub-postmasters wrongfully convicted for 'stealing'
MailOnline 6 JAN 2024
The Post Office is under criminal investigation for fraud after the wrongful prosecution of sub-postmasters.
Scotland Yard confirmed last night that the organisation is being investigated by detectives for alleged fraud offences over their handling of the Horizon scandal.
The gilded lives of the Post Office scandal bosses that prove penitence is only for the little people...Chief Executive of the Post Office from 2012, Paula Vennells presided and LIED in the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history
Former Postmasters celebrating outside the Royal Courts of Justice after their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in April 2021
Nearly 100 sub-postmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting due to the bug-ridden Horizon IT system.
More than 700 staff had their lives ruined between 1999 and 2015, when they were accused of the crimes and dragged through the courts on the basis of evidence gathered by the unreliable computer programme.
For more than two decades, former Post Office staff fought to clear their names. Now they are in a position where those responsible for their suffering are under investigation.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told The Times that officers are 'investigating potential fraud offences arising out of these prosecutions', relating to 'monies recovered from sub-postmasters as a result of prosecutions or civil actions'.
It is not clear whether the Post Office as a whole, or individuals, are being investigated.
Jo Hamilton, 66, a former sub-postmaster from Hampshire, said: 'They have made people's lives a misery and they have committed crimes. It is not just a computer problem — this is absolute corruption at its worst, state-sponsored corruption.'
Paul Marshall, a barrister who represents several of the wrongly convicted postmasters, said: 'The emergence of in-formation suggesting that the Met police is looking at fraud in connection with the Post Office's conduct is wholly unsurprising.
'Once it is accepted that postmasters were not experiencing real shortfalls at their branches, the money that the Post Office obtained from them, through demands… were themselves improper demands for money and money that was received unlawfully.
'The reality therefore appears to have been that the Post Office obtained large sums of money from its postmasters on grounds that were false and that were known by it to be false.'
There is currently a public inquiry into the fiasco, which has recently been dramatisied in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office.
Since the four-part drama aired 50 former staff have come forward, with five seeking to appeal their convictions.
News that the Post Office is being investigated for fraud comes just days after lawyers to the inquiry said there is enough evidence to bring an investigation for perverting the course of justice.
Jo Hamilton, 66, a former sub-postmaster from Hampshire, said: 'They have made people's lives a misery and they have committed crimes'
The spokesman from the Met acknowledged this, adding: 'The Met is investigating potential offences of perjury and per-verting the course of justice.
'These potential offences arise out of investigations and prosecutions carried out by the Post Office.
The investigation was launched in January 2020 following a referral from the Director of Public Prosecutions. Two people have been interviewed under caution.
'Nobody has been arrested.'
Post Office Horizon IT scandal: Former Postmaster talks being wrongly accused of stealing £80k
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office TRAILER
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