Author: BBC

Let’s take a step back to explain what the Post Office scandal is.More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from a computer system called Horizon, in what has been described as the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice.The Post Office itself took many cases to court, prosecuting 700 people between 1999 and 2015.Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies, including the Crown Prosecution Service(CPS).Some went to prison for false accounting and theft. Many were financially ruined.In 2017, a group of 555 sub-postmasters took legal action against the Post Office.In 2019, it agreed to pay…

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Singapore, which is often referred to as the Switzerland of Asia, started wooing banks and wealth managers in the 1990s. Economic reforms in China and India had begun to pay off, and then in the 2000s, a newly-stable Indonesia saw wealth grow as well. Soon, Singapore became a haven for foreign businesses, with investor-friendly laws, tax exemptions and other incentives. Source link

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