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Police identify seven suspects related to Post Office Horizon scandal
Police investigating the Horizon Post Office scandal have now identified seven suspects, with more than 45 people classed as "persons of interest".
A "scaled-up" national team of officers has been in place for over six months as part of Operation Olympos - dedicated to looking at crimes related to the Horizon Post Office scandal. The number of suspects has increased to seven since before Christmas, as part of a UK-wide investigation involving 100 officers.
Four have now been interviewed under caution. Hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of stealing after faulty computer software created false accounting shortfalls in Post Office branches between 1999 and 2015.
Commander Stephen Clayman, Gold Command for Operation Olympos, described a "huge shift" in terms of their investigation and "significant progress". "We've got over four million documents that are going to rise to about six million documents," he said, "but we're beginning to methodically work through those and looking at individuals who are associated with certain prosecutions." He described a "pool of about 45 people plus" classed as "persons of interest.
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