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MPs criticise Post Office mediation scheme

16th Dec 2014
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MPs have criticised the Post Office for its response to claims that its IT system caused about 150 sub-postmasters to be wrongly accused of false accounting and fraud.

About 140 MPs have withdrawn support for a Post Office mediation scheme, the BBC reported.

Some sub-postmasters have claimed that Horizon accounting software used by thousands of Post Offices nationwide is to blame for some of the accounting discrepancies.

In September, a leaked report commissioned by the Post Office and done by forensic accountants Second Sight said the technology was not fit for purpose in some branches, although there was no evidence of systemic computer problems.

Bugs were identified in the system by Second Sight in 2013, and in August last year some of the sub-postmasters were acquitted of false accounting.

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