US EditionPost Office scandal: Police consider corporate manslaughter charges
Police probe now includes corporate manslaughter as over 900 wrongful prosecutions occurred due to Horizon IT system errors, officials said.
- Police officers investigating the Post Office Horizon IT scandal are considering corporate manslaughter charges.
- The Horizon IT system falsely created shortfalls in Post Office branches for which sub-postmasters were held liable, leading to prosecutions and some going to prison.
- The criminal investigation, Operation Olympos, began in 2020, and officers are appealing to former sub-postmasters who signed non-disclosure agreements to come forward.
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Police are considering corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal
The criminal investigation into the scandal, in which hundreds of postmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft and false accounting via the Horizon software, has been expanded to include more "persons of interest".
Evening Standard
Police considering corporate manslaughter charges in Horizon scandal probe
There are now 53 persons of interest as part of the investigation.
Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal probe - The Mirror
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