Fujitsu’s European boss has told MPs the company is “not a parasite”, after being criticised for continuing to make hundreds of millions of pounds from UK government contracts while refusing to give a compensation figure for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Two years ago Paul Patterson said Fujitsu had a “moral obligation” to pay financial redress to the victims of Horizon – admitting it had known the accounting IT system was faulty since the 1990s – with the government estimating the final cost to taxpayers of payouts to be £1.8bn.
