UK government to investigate Post Office over wrongly paid bonuses

CEO Nick Read and other top bosses given thousands of pounds for cooperating with IT scandal inquiry

The UK government has said it will launch an investigation into the Post Office after it admitted it had wrongly paid thousands of pounds of bonuses to top executives simply for cooperating with an inquiry into a long-running miscarriage of justice.

The Post Office chief executive, Nick Read, agreed last week to return an undisclosed proportion of the £455,000 bonus reported by the state-owned company in its annual report in March.