Fujitsu used prosecutions of sub-postmasters as a 'cash cow'
Fujitsu used prosecutions as a “cash cow”, the Horizon IT scandal inquiry heard, with the company earning up to £20,000 a case for providing evidence to prosecute sub-postmasters.
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Fujitsu used prosecutions as a “cash cow”, the Horizon IT scandal inquiry heard, with the company earning up to £20,000 a case for providing evidence to prosecute sub-postmasters.
Paul Patterson told the Post Office inquiry Fujitsu wants to "get to the truth wherever it lays".
A Fujitsu manager described sub-postmaster Lee Castleton as a “nasty chap” in an email shown at the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal.
Like the exemplars of social realist cinema, Mr Bates vs The Post Office follows stories of individual plight facing a social problem filmed in a naturalistic manner.
Peter Sewell was part of the Post Office Account Security Team at Fujitsu when East Yorkshire subpostmaster Lee Castleton faced his legal battle in 2007.