{"id":283270,"date":"2025-04-16T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/ey-investigated-over-post-office-horizon-audit\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:42:14","slug":"ey-investigated-over-post-office-horizon-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/ey-investigated-over-post-office-horizon-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"EY investigated over Post Office Horizon audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/7bc7\/live\/753a7520-1a95-11f0-849e-f3d9ffdf9a20.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"EY investigated over Post Office Horizon audit\" title=\"EY investigated over Post Office Horizon audit\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">EY is being investigated over its audits of the Post Office in relation to the Horizon scandal from March 2015 to March 2018.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK&#8217;s accounting regulator, said it will check whether EY met its standards &#8220;with particular reference to matters related to the Horizon IT system&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The software developed by Fujitsu was at the heart of the Post Office scandal that saw hundreds of postmasters wrongly convicted.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">EY said it takes its responsibilities &#8220;extremely seriously&#8221; and will be &#8220;fully cooperating&#8221; with the FRC.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The FRC said the recent public hearings carried out as a broader inquiry into the Horizon scandal did not cover EY&#8217;s audits of the Post Office, so will not be covered by its investigation.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from the Horizon computer system. It has been called the UK&#8217;s most widespread miscarriage of justice.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Post Office itself took many cases to court, prosecuting 700 people between 1999 and 2015.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckg2qdeegy7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EY is being investigated over its audits of the Post Office in relation to the Horizon scandal from March 2015 to March 2018. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK&#8217;s accounting regulator, said it will check whether EY met its standards &#8220;with particular reference to matters related to the Horizon IT system&#8221;. The software developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/7bc7\/live\/753a7520-1a95-11f0-849e-f3d9ffdf9a20.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[13206,10657,14271,1951,418],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283272,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283270\/revisions\/283272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}