EY is the subject of an investigation into his audits of the post office in relation to the horizon scandal from March 2015 to March 2018.
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the accounting regulator of the United Kingdom, said that it will verify if EY had respected its standards “with a particular reference to the questions related to the computer system of the horizon”.
The software developed by Fujitsu was at the heart of the post office scandal which saw hundreds of postal teachers wrongly sentenced.
Ey said he was taking his responsibilities “very seriously” and will be “completely cooperative” with the FRC.
The FRC said that recent public hearings carried out as a wider investigation into the horizon scandal did not cover EY audits in the post office, so will not be covered by its investigation.
More than 900 sub-maids have been continued to have stolen due to incorrect information from the Horizon computer system. It was called the most widespread miscarriage of justice in the United Kingdom.
The post office itself took many courts, pursuing 700 people between 1999 and 2015.
