The British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of postmasters were erroneously accused of fraud, is the focus of a four-part docudrama that made waves in the U.K. and comes to the U.S. Sunday on PBS.
The Post Office's IT helpdesk was instructing Fujitsu, the maker of faulty accounting software, to change sub-postmaster accounts more than a decade ago, according to leaked recordings.
Before they were sacked, forensic accountants uncovered specific dates and times that sub-postmaster accounts were remotely corrected by Fujitsu. Senior Post Office officials were notified two years before the final Horizon prosecution and six years before they owned up to wrongdoing.
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Before they were sacked, forensic accountants uncovered specific dates and times that sub-postmaster accounts were remotely corrected by Fujitsu. Senior Post Office officials were notified two years before the final Horizon prosecution and six years before they owned up to wrongdoing.