Post Office IT scandal: compensation scheme launched for victims
by Jamie Grierson from World news | The Guardian on (#5XCAZ)
Chancellor unveils scheme to fairly compensate workers who brought Horizon IT system failings to light
Post office operators who helped uncover the Horizon IT scandal will be able to apply to a new compensation scheme, the chancellor has announced.
The IT system installed by the Post Office and supplied by Fujitsu falsely suggested there were cash shortfalls, leading to 736 unsafe convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
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