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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nick Lester

Fujitsu told to pay up by Post Office campaigners over ‘ghastly fraud’

Fujitsu (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

Fujitsu should “pay up” hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation immediately for its central role in the “ghastly fraud” that ruined the lives of innocent Post Office branch managers, leading campaigners have said.

Parliament was told that if the Japanese tech giant was an individual it would be facing years if not decades in jail for its active part in the Horizon IT scandal which saw subpostmasters “maliciously prosecuted”.

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