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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Peter HUTCHISON

Japan Tech Firm Fujitsu In Firing Line Over UK Post Office Scandal

The firm created faulty accounting software that saw subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft (Credit: AFP)

A Japanese technology giant is in the crosshairs of British lawmakers for building the faulty accounting software that led to what has been called the country's biggest ever miscarriage of justice.

Fujitsu created the Horizon IT system that resulted in some 700 local post office managers being wrongly convicted for theft and false accounting between 1999 and 2005.

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