It is a scandal that the British government describes today one of the greatest legal errors in the country. Between 1999 and 2015, almost 1,000 emails were prosecuted for improper appropriation of money … they had not committed.
Actually, accounting anomalies come from defective accounting software, Horizon, supplied by the Japanese group Fujitsu. Established by the Post Office, the postal public operator, the software generated false deficits in the agency’s accounts, which employees had to justify and reimburse their coast.
Ruin, prison …
The consequences were dramatic: some postal workers were imprisoned, hundreds of them had to reimburse the sums that they had never stolen, others lost their work and reputation. Thousands of people were affected by system errors.
In January 2024, a miniseries transmitted by ITV, returning on the fight …