Okay so this is UK local news, but this has to be one of the most insane kafkaesque things I've ever read. The number of years and people involved makes this story just absolute bonkers.
Long story short: The UK Post office used a software called Horizon to track account use, among other things. Based on the findings of that software, they took hundreds of their employees to court over a period of 15 years for misuse of funds / embezzlement, an average of one employee per week. Many settled, dozens were convicted to years in prison. Finances and families were ruined, at least one person committed suicide when facing the accusations.
The punchline: no money was actually stolen. The Horizon software (by Fujitsu) was just a bug-riddled piece of crap.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036
The real kicker: the post office knew that their program was faulty at least since 2011, but decided go on prosecuting people at least until 2015.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...shortfall.html
Nearly a thousand convictions relating to this scandal are now under question, making this one of the largest incidents of miscarriages of justice in modern history.