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1,000 post office managers being accused of theft and false accounting. our business editor, simonjack, is here to look at how fujitsu became a central player in possibly the biggest miscarriage ofjustice in british history: fujitsu�*s long and continued position at the heart of government technology projects began when it acquired a company called icl in the 1990s. it was like a british version of ibm. buying it gave fujitsu a seat at the top table when government contracts were being awarded. it has key questions to answer. in 1996, it won the contract to computerise transactions at the post office. it was rolled out in 1999 and there were reports of problems almost immediately. so the first question for fujitsu — when did the company know something was wrong? the post office said it had relied on assurances from fujitsu that the horizon system was "like fort knox". no—one, it said, apart