Fujitsu Ban Demanded Over Post Office Scandal

0:00On March 13, MPs are calling for Fujitsu to be banned from new government contracts until it pays compensation to victims of the post office horizon. Scandal The Business and Trade Committee says the company has not contributed a single penny toward the nearly 2 billion-pound redress bill, even as it keeps winning public work. The scandal involved faulty horizon software from Fujitsu that wrongly accused hundreds of subpostmasters of theft and fraud between 19, 99 and 2015. So far, more than 11,500 claimants have received about 1,480 million pounds, but thousands more are still waiting. Victims face slow bureaucratic processes that often re-traumatize them according to the committee. Taxpayers have covered the cost so far, including 2.5 billion pounds paid by the post office to Fujitsu with over 600 million. Since efforts began to replace the flawed system, Fujitsu imposed a self-ban on some new bids

1:03in January 2024, but it still supplies the post office and other departments. The committee also flagged possible flaws in horizon's predecessor software, Capture, which might mean even more wrongful convictions. Parliament needs to act fast to quash those cases and ensure full justice, while ministers push Fujitsu to pay up and expand its contract limits.