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Post Office faces potential criminal probe over Fujitsu IT system's accounting failures

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Auditors were not independant and I'm guessing there were no logs at the SPM to correlate the server logs against, so they only had an incomplete set of records to audit against but were treating them as 100% accurate.

The PO did an in-house investigation that failed to find any problems.

They then commissioned an independent investigation (Second Sight). They then obstructed that investigation by refusing to hand over key documents. When was clear it was going to declare the system "not fit for purpose" they shut down the investigation one day before it published (as revealed by Private Eye), destroyed all documents, and wrote and published their own report that declared the system was fine.

Basically at that point they knew how bad the problem was and instead of dealing with it attempted to cover it up because they knew just how bad the damage to their business was going to be. Which is the same reason they used to try to get the case thrown out.

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