Europe boss also speaks of 'nervousness' in any extension to the use of the controversial, ageing system
Fujitsu Europe boss has told a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal — one of the widest miscarriages of justice in UK history — that the company does not trust the UK public body in its use of Horizon system data to support future police prosecutions.
Horizon is an EPOS and back-end finance system for thousands of Post Office branches around the UK, first implemented by ICL, a UK technology company later bought by Fujitsu. From 1999 until 2015, around 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongfully convicted of fraud when errors in the system were to blame.
He said it is"the complete supply chain that provides information to Horizon and actually to sub-postmasters themselves. You cannot rely solely… on one data source.
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