"Scandal Fallout: Vennells Returns Honors Amid Post Office Computer System Scandal"
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Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells is returning her CBE following calls for her to be stripped of the title amidst the Horizon scandal, where 736 subpostmasters were wrongfully accused due to computer errors. An inquiry into the scandal was launched in 2020, with Vennells expected to give evidence. Meanwhile, the UK government has paid £138 million in compensation to victims, with pressure to resolve remaining cases, and Fujitsu, the supplier of the Horizon system, has won significant government contracts despite its involvement in the scandal.
- Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal The Register
- Now claw back Vennells’s bonuses from the Post Office. The rules allow it The Guardian
- Post Office Horizon scandal: Woman returns MBE BBC.com
- Paula Vennells hands back CBE after more than 1 million sign petition The Independent
- Letters: Paula Vennells and the very British vice of bestowing awards for failure The Telegraph
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