MPs urge Fujitsu to make ‘immediate’ payment to Post Office Horizon victims
Key takeaways
- The government must ‘help bring this shameful chapter to a close’, says Liam Byrne.
- Prefer the Guardian on Google The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an “immediate” payment towards the compensation bill for victims.
- Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the UK Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts.
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The government must ‘help bring this shameful chapter to a close’, says Liam Byrne. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty View image in fullscreen. The government must ‘help bring this shameful chapter to a close’, says Liam Byrne. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Post Office Horizon scandal MPs urge Fujitsu to make ‘immediate’ payment to Post Office Horizon victims Liam Byrne, who chairs Commons business committee, says too many operators are still waiting for redress
Prefer the Guardian on Google The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an “immediate” payment towards the compensation bill for victims.
Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the UK Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts.