The head of the British Post Office has been sacked due to a major judicial corruption scandal

According to the international group Tasnim news agency quoted by the newspaper “Tags Anseiger” of Switzerland, in In connection with a judicial scandal in the Post Office in the United Kingdom, the head of this institution was dismissed.

British Economy Minister Kimi Budnock said on Sky News on Sunday that “Henry Staunton”, the head of the post office of this country, was fired. has dismissed his position. The British minister told Sedav-Sima: “We talked and agreed that it would be better if the Post Office had a new management in the future.

This judicial scandal, of course, happened before Staunton’s term of office, which was in the year 2022 appointed as postmaster. Budnok said about this: But considering all the problems of the business model of this company, he came to the conclusion that someone is needed to deal with these things effectively. He also expects Japanese tech giant Fujitsu to pay damages in connection with the legal violations. He has already contacted the company’s CEO.

In early January, the TV series Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office sparked a wave of controversy in the country. The four-part series on ITV describes one of the biggest criminal offenses in British history, where between 1999 and 2015, around 700 Post Office employees were prosecuted for stealing money from the agency. In fact, the defects were caused by a faulty computer program.

Instead of investigating the mounting evidence of problems with the computer system known as Horizon, British Postal management blamed its employees and asked them to fix the deficiencies from compensate their pockets. As a result, many went into debt and some lost their homes. Many postal workers were imprisoned for theft. Some confessed falsely in court to escape from prison. Four of the affected people committed suicide, and some even died without due process.

Paola Vennels, the former head of the post office, and other managers of the department were heavily criticized after the series aired because They allowed judicial investigations against postal workers to continue even after software problems were identified.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also recently spoke of a terrible miscarriage of justice that should never have happened. He stressed that his government will do “everything in its power” to ensure that all those affected receive compensation. By 2015, hundreds of postal workers had been falsely accused of theft. The fault was blamed on Japanese tech giant Fujitsu’s Horizon software, which the British Post Office had been installing since the late 1990s. . The long-running scandal is now in the news in the UK after a TV channel aired it as a multi-part TV drama titled ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’ and the British Conservative government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under pressure to act to make up for this huge mistake.

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