Post Office settles IT ‘fraud’ case for £58m
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The Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.
It brings an end to a mammoth series of court cases over the Horizon IT system used to manage local post office finances since 1999.
A group of postmasters said faults in the system led to them wrongly being accused of fraud and false accounting.
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