Post Office Scandal - Horizon IT

[nugnug]

https://johnsmytheinvestigations.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/msm-article-post-office-scandal-scotlands-lord-advocate-claims-crown-office-was-repeatedly-misled/

[Hardy Boy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13247069/Bombshell-secret-Post-Office-recordings-Horizon-scandal.html



Lord Arbuthnot broke down in tears when shown the evidence. He said: 'I've been doing this for 14, 15 years now and to think that a British institution could behave like this, owned by us, is just terrible.'

[handyman]

I've just watched the first 2 episodes, and read through the comments here.
I can't find the answer to Joe's question, the poor woman who remortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to raise the 36K shortfall.

If I didn't take the money, but still had to pay the money back where did the money go?

edit: at the 57 minute mark the journalist touches on the point, of where has the missing money gone?
https://youtu.be/MyhjuR5g1Mc?t=3416

[handyman]

It looks as though the money was paid into the general coffers of the Post Office.
This expert in the video below says 1 million pounds, but it must be a lot more, if there were 500 + Post Masters affected. Unless most just didn't try and cover the shortfall, lost their jobs or walked instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9juUb7rvY

[Hardy Boy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13265643/Post-Office-boss-Paula-Vennells-knew-covert-operations-team-Fujitsu-subpostmasters-account.html


Claims of Fujitsu having a 'covert operations team' which could remotely access Postmaster's accounts were first brought to light by former Post Office union rep Michael Rudkin after he visited Fujitsu's Bracknell headquarters on August 19, 2008.

After being shown the recordings by Channel 4 news, Mr Rudkin recalled how he was shown staff members remotely accessing Postmasters' accounts despite being told categorically by the Post Office that this was impossible.

He said: 'My chaperone introduced me to those that were left as being the covert operations team.

'I was astounded. He altered the figures of one of the branch accounts on a live terminal in the boiler room at Fujitsu headquarters.

'I asked him: Have you just altered those figures and is this real time? The reply was: 'Yes'. I said: 'Are you absolutely sure? 'Yes', this is real time.'

'Realising my disdain as to what I'd just witnessed, I was then more or less just ushered back upstairs and pushed out through the door like a common criminal.'