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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Davies

‘How much is Fujitsu going to pay?’ Questions for Post Office IT firm as it faces MPs

A select committee will interrogate what Fujitsu and the Post Office knew about flaws in the Horizon system and how early they knew it.
A select committee will interrogate what Fujitsu and the Post Office knew about flaws in the Horizon system and how early they knew it. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

The role played by the technology firm Fujitsu in the Post Office Horizon scandal will come under the microscope this week, with the judge-led inquiry and a committee of MPs due to question company employees at separate hearings on Tuesday.

It was not Fujitsu that relentlessly pursued thousands of local branch owner-operators, falsely accusing them of theft and fraud even after it became clear that the Horizon IT system was producing incorrect data. That was the Post Office.

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