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The recordings revealed that the company and Fujitsu knew their faulty computer system could alter sub-postmasters' accounts more than ten years ago, despite denying this for years.
Former sub-postmistress Lynette Hutchings, 67, died before receiving full compensation for her wrongful conviction for theft due to the flawed Horizon IT system.
The Post Office was already mired in the Horizon IT scandal when its deeply- religious chief executive, Reverend Paula Vennells, agreed to take part in a panel discussion about business ethics.
Theresa May 's government forced through a CBE for disgraced former Post Office boss Paula Vennells despite known concerns about the Horizon IT system.
Fujitsu has been awarded work totalling £4.9billion since a December 2019 Court of Appeal ruling that its Horizon software had 'bugs, errors and defects'.