UK government to investigate Post Office over wrongly paid bonuses

CEO Nick Read and other top bosses given thousands of pounds for cooperating with IT scandal inquiry

The UK government has said it will investigate after the Post Office admitted it had wrongly paid thousands of pounds of bonuses to top executives simply for cooperating with an inquiry into a long-running miscarriage of justice.

The Post Office chief executive, Nick Read, agreed last week to return an undisclosed portion of the 455,000 bonus reported by the state-owned company in its annual report in March.