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...The latest stage of the inquiry, beginning on Tuesday, will focus on the role company executives, government ministers and figures from Fujitsu played in handling the cases of dozens of sub-postmasters....
...I hope this will aid transparency and scrutiny around the role of Fujitsu as a public sector supplier,” she said....
...Keegan, who left Fujitsu in 2018, had held the post of UK chief executive for little more than a year between March 2014 and June 2015....
...“It’s clear that Fujitsu has questions to answer over its conduct.”...
...Takahito Tokita, Fujitsu’s global chief executive, also apologised for the affair....
...Why did Fujitsu develop the Horizon system?...
...Hollinrake said the government was eager to find a “mechanism to rapidly overturn” Post Office convictions secured with faulty data from Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system....
...Fujitsu remained a leading software supplier to the UK government despite the scandal....
...“The people at Fujitsu kept on saying, ‘Let’s keep [ICL] at arm’s length’, at the time . . . and Fujitsu management was not able to touch ICL,” said Yutaka Nakashima, a former Fujitsu employee who handled...
...Recordings obtained by ITV and Channel 4 appeared to show that Vennells had been briefed by senior Post Office management on findings by forensic accountants that a “covert operations team” within Fujitsu...
...“Out of respect for the inquiry process, it would be inappropriate for Fujitsu to comment further at this time,” Fujitsu said....
...Angela Van Den Bogerd on Thursday told a public inquiry she had not deliberately given false testimony to the court in March 2019 about her knowledge that Horizon software provider Fujitsu could remotely...
...to Fujitsu in 2009....
...More than 900 people were convicted of a range of offences, including theft and false accounting, in cases involving data from Fujitsu’s flawed Horizon system, which was introduced in 1999....
...The big policy challenge of the Post Office scandal for both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer is to set out what they think the lessons of it are for them, not just for the Post Office and Fujitsu....
...His comments will add pressure on senior figures involved in the affair as the inquiry turns to taking evidence from company executives, government ministers and figures from Fujitsu....
...The UK Post Office privately told ministers this month that it would have opposed appeals by nearly half of the 700 sub-postmasters convicted using data from Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon IT system....
...Fujitsu executives including former chief executives Duncan Tait and current Europe chief Paul Patterson will give evidence....
...The priority now is to exonerate and compensate the remaining victims and investigate whether managers at Fujitsu and the Post Office themselves broke the law....
...More than 900 sub-postmasters were convicted in cases involving data from the faulty Horizon IT system developed by Japanese software company Fujitsu following its introduction in 1999, including 700 brought...
...The UK prime minister vowed to deliver “justice and compensation” for the more than 700 people convicted between 2000 and 2014 of theft or false accounting using flawed data from Fujitsu’s Horizon software...
...But Fujitsu should be paying the compensation. And future ministers should consider meeting a few “troublemakers”: they might learn something....
...More than 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015 using data from Fujitsu’s flawed Horizon IT system....
...The scandal resulted in more than 900 people being convicted for a range of offences including theft and false accounting in cases involving data from Fujitsu’s flawed Horizon system following its introduction...
...No executives of the Post Office or Fujitsu, which took control of the British computer company ICL in 1998, have been punished....
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