Post Office lawyers were paid or promised over £330m. Police got £8.5m this year.
The UK government agreed to give the police investigation into the Post Office Horizon scandal £8.5 million for 2026-27 and £11.8 million for 2027-28, Computer Weekly reported on 25 September.
Horizon was the Post Office's accounting system, built by Fujitsu. Its errors led to subpostmasters being wrongly prosecuted.
More than £330 million has been paid or signed to five law firms working for the Post Office on the scandal, Computer Weekly reported on 23 September. Herbert Smith Freehills accounts for more than £200 million of it.
Operation Olympos has a projected budget of £19.3 million for 2026-27 and is expected to cost over £50 million by 2030.
"We are very pleased that the Home Office has provided additional funding," said Commander Stephen Clayman, who leads it.
Janet Skinner, a former subpostmaster later cleared by the courts, asked: "If they can afford to pay that amount of money to law firms, why can't they pay to actually get to the truth?"
The Home Office called it an investigation "of exceptional scale and scope" and said it is committed to justice for victims.
When a system you run is wrong, who is paid to find out why, and who is paid to defend it?
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