British Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, speaking after meeting with Fujitsu CEO Takahito Tokita. The British government says it has agreed withFujitsu to discuss compensation for post office workers wrongly convicted due to a flawed accounting system. More than 900 British post office employees were prosecuted on theft and other charges between 1999 and 2015 after the software wrongly indicated shortfalls of cash. The system was provided by a subsidiary of Fujitsu.
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sakurasuki
Why the HQ not trying to push highest ethical and moral standard for its subsidiary?
Namahage
Why would anyone buy Japanese software?
kohakuebisu
This is an awful story where there seems to be deliberate collusion between the post office and Fujitsu to hide who knew what. The post office lied to dozens of individual postmasters about no-one else having accounting problems, and it was them who pursued the criminal cases, so a huge chunk of the blame lies with them.
wallace
Pay the compensation already.
itsonlyrocknroll
Compensation payments so far
Compensation Schemes and Payouts:
Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS): £315 million
Group Litigation Order Scheme (GLOS): £128 million
Overturned Convictions (OC) Scheme: £65 million
Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme (HCRS): £156 million
Some £600,000,000.
Post Office Horizon IT scandal: Progress of compensation
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/post-office-horizon-it-scandal-progress-of-compensation/
I suggest many have yet, I suspect never will face criminal prosecution.
The horrors these postmasters had to endure within their communities, some suffering such emotional trauma to take their own lives
*Harry_Gatto
A little bit of research will tell you that the software is not Japanese. The software was originally developed by ICL (International Computers Ltd), a British company which was bought by Fujitsu. Many years ago I used to sell ICL kit and my brother-in-law was a software developer at ICL.