A Post Office boss will give evidence to the Horizon scandal inquiry on Friday a day after she was accused of misleading the High Court.
Angela van den Bogerd, who was in charge of handling complaints about Horizon from 2010, told the High Court in 2019 that she did not know subpostmasters’ branch accounts could be accessed remotely before 2018.
Testifying under oath in March 2019, Ms van den Bogerd told the court in the case of Mr Bates vs the Post Office she had first become aware transactions could be inputted without a sub-postmaster’s knowledge the previous year.
However, the inquiry was shown emails which revealed she was told remote access was possible as far back as 2010.
The former Post Office boss told the inquiry at the start of her evidence that she was “truly, truly sorry” for the “devastation” caused to postmasters and their families but refused to take personal responsibility for her role in the scandal.
Ms van den Bogerd held various senior roles during a 35-year career at the Post Office, including head of partnerships, director of support services and the director of people and change, before eventually leaving the organisation in 2020.
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