EY is investigated on its audits of the Post Office in relation to the Horizon scandal from March 2015 to March 2018.
The Financial Information Council (FRC), the United Kingdom accounting regulator, said it will verify whether with its standards “with particular reference to issues related to the Horizon It system.”
The software developed by Fujitsu was in the heart of the post office scandal that saw hundreds of mistakes erroneously condemned.
Hey said he takes his “extremely serious” responsibilities and will be “completely cooperating” with the FRC.
The FRC said that recent public audiences carried out as a broader investigation into the Horizon scandal did not cover the audits of the EY Post Office, so it will not be covered by their investigation.
More than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted for stealing due to the incorrect information of the Horizon computer system. It has been called the spontaneous abortion of the broadest justice in the United Kingdom.
The Take Toke office many cases to the courts, processing 700 people between 1999 and 2015.
