Fujitsu staff feared being “hauled over the coals” after realising the Post Office was using “manipulated” audit data to criminally investigate sub-postmasters, the Horizon IT inquiry heard.
John Simpkins, a team leader within the Japanese firm’s software support centre (SSC), confirmed that data on recorded transactions made in branches was passed on to the Post Office in a “filtered format” of what Fujitsu had.
Current and former employees from the multi-billion pound firm are giving evidence to the inquiry into the scandal, in which more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted because of glitches in the company’s Horizon computer software.
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