Police Are Investigating ‘dozens Of People’ At Post Office And Fujitsu In New Update
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“Dozens of people” at the Post Office and Fujitsu are being investigated by police, the head of a nationwide operation has announced.
Around 100 officers are looking at possible uspects and their involvement in the Post Office scandal.
The scandal saw hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly prosecutred for stealing from their branches between 1999 and 2015 after faulty Horizon software triggered a string accounting errors.
In a new update, senior Metropolitan Police officers and victims, including Sir Alan Bates, have met. They were told that officers are going through 1.5 million documents and thousands of victims.
Commander Stephen Clayman, leading Operation Olympos, said “dozens” of people at the Post Office and Fujitsu were being investigated.
Commander Stephen Clayman is leading Operation Olympos (Image: National Police Chiefs’ Council )
He added: “We will go where the evidence takes us… our ongoing goal is the pursuit of justice”.
Three people have been interviewed under caution, with plans to question more suspects in 2025. Last month, Sky News revealed that four suspects were being investigated for perverting the course of justice and perjury.
If the Criminal Prosecution Service decides that the evidence standard is met, any potential trial would not be until at least 2027.
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Former sub-postmistress Jess Kaur was wrongly accused of 36 counts of theft from her Post Office in Aldridge in the West Midlands. She had a mental breakdown and tried to take her own life as a result.
Ms Kaur said it was “disgusting” that a trial would be years away but understood that police need time to investigate. “There’s not just one or two of them [to investigate] so it will take time,” she said. “I hope they do a good job, we don’t want to rush them.”
She added, however, that “hundreds were put behind bars straight away” when they were falsely accused of stealing from the Post Office.
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