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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

Fujitsu bosses have been paid £37m since it won Post Office contract

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Fujitsu’s offices in Berkshire. The Tokyo-based company has promised to contribute to compensation to Post Office owner operators. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty

Bosses at Fujitsu have collected about £37m in pay, bonuses and compensation for loss of office since the technology company won the contract to supply the software at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal, it has emerged.

Accounts going back 25 years reveal the seven-figure sums paid out to executives of the UK division of the Japanese-owned technology company, even as more than 900 people were prosecuted as a result of flaws in the system their company supplied.

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