Fujitsu May Avoid £1bn Compensation Over Post Office Scandal

MPs demand details of Fujitsu's contracts as company admits knowledge of software bugs from the start

Fujitsu, the tech company responsible for the faulty Horizon software that led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of postmasters, may have avoided paying £1 billion in compensation due to the Post Office's delay in launching a legal claim.
MPs are demanding details of contracts awarded to Fujitsu by 21 public sector organisations since 2019, when the High Court ruled that prosecutions were wrongly based on Fujitsu's faulty Horizon IT system.
Fujitsu has pledged not to bid for any further government contracts while the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal continues.
Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu's European division, admitted in a public inquiry that the company knew about the software bugs 'from the start' of the Horizon system's deployment in 1999.
The UK government continues to award billions of pounds worth of public contracts to Fujitsu even after information about the scandal involving Horizon emerged.