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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Ex-Post Office boss ‘gave Fujitsu bonus contract despite warnings’

Post Office branch
More than 900 post office operators were wrongfully convicted between 1999 and 2015. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells gave Fujitsu a bonus contract in 2013 to take over an archive of branch data, despite warnings such a move would destroy evidence that might clear operators, whistleblowers have said.

Transaction information was “replatformed” on cost grounds from a “gold standard” external storage system known as Centera to one owned by the Japanese software company running the Post Office’s Horizon IT network.

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