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UK Post Office Chief Sacked As Firm Reels From IT Scandal

Software glitches led to the wrongful conviction of over 700 subpostmasters (Credit: AFP)

UK Business Minister Kemi Badenoch on Sunday said she had sacked the chairman of the Post Office amid tensions over the scandal of hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft due to faulty accounting software.

A television drama in early January that told the story of the subpostmasters' ordeal and their ongoing battle to clear their names and secure compensation shocked the nation.

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