"We're now working with police forces across the country to pull together what will have to be a national investigation, which we'll pull together because there's hundreds of postmasters and mistresses from across the country. Fujitsu are based in one part of the country and the Post Office is another part of the country, (it's a) massive piece of work to do. There are tens of millions of documents to be worked through in a criminal investigation. And of course, we've got to do that following on behind the public inquiry, which I think finishes at the end of this year but won't publish until late next year," said Sir Mark.
"At the core of the issue you've potentially got fraud in terms of false documents if it's for financial purposes, and you've got potential impacts on individuals where they've been pursued for trying to balance the books when either it was impossible or the books balanced and they've still been pursued," stated Sir Mark.
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