British Post Office scandal
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Sep 25, 2026
speaker_1HOST
For the text version of this and all our Long Reads, go to theguardian.com forward slash longread.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
The other post office scandal.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
How Organized Crime Launders Money on the High Street by Oliver Bullough.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Leicestershire police won't say who first told them about Jigar Ghiwala, but you can see why.
26 MINS LATER
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Money needs to be laundered.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
And yeah, somebody else fills those boots, don't they? Thanks again for listening to The Guardian Long Read.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
That was The Other Post Office Scandal, How Organized Crime Launders Money on the High Street by Oliver Bullough.
Oliver BulloughNARRATOR
Produced by Nicola Alexandru.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
People say, and I've done it myself.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
I got the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
Oh,
GregHOST
was it
Andrew BridgenGUEST
That is not what a public inquiry does.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
It costs hundreds of millions of pounds.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
I mean, I was the MP who uncovered the Post Office Horizon scandal in 2012.
Andrew BridgenGUEST
We'd got it sorted.
Jim KillockGUEST
And it's also about ownership of the systems.
Jim KillockGUEST
So I think, you know, you think about something like Post Office Horizon and all the problems they've got with that or with something like the HMRC and the state pensions, for example.
Jim KillockGUEST
civil service pensions and the whole chaos that's around that.
Jim KillockGUEST
Well, these are systems that are not fully owned by government, right? And they're also huge systems that have tried to fix everything at once.
Robert BucklandGUEST
The warning from history is previous technology.
Robert BucklandGUEST
where, for example, the Post Office Horizon scheme developed by ICDL and Fujitsu, basically was devolve and forget.
Robert BucklandGUEST
We've got a computer to do all that now.
Robert BucklandGUEST
We don't have to think about accounts.