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in the post office horizon it scandal, which saw hundreds of sub postmasters falsely accused of theft and fraud. it is the first time a senior representative from the japanese firm will be directly questioned at both the horizon inquiry and by a committee of mps in parliament. business correspondent emma simpson has the details. i was given a nine month custodial sentence. i was suspended in 2009, convicted in 2010. until my conviction . was quashed in 2001, my life was left in tatters, - and my customers and villagers thought i was a fraud. just some of the stories from the breakfast sofa last week. and at the heart of this scandal was the horizon computer system installed and operated by fujitsu. it had problems right from the start. the errors made it look as if money had gone missing in branch accounts. all these years on, the pressure on fujitsu is growing and for the government to act. i want some answers, please, from ministers, including you, about what you are goin ....
multiple times even when i asked forjust a written comment to the victims whose lives were turned upside down. that did not exactly surprised me because going silent when faced with bad news is quite a typical strategy forjapanese typical strategy for japanese companies. they typical strategy forjapanese companies. they did send me a statement last week saying. basically the company has remained tightlipped about it. the other issue to remember, while it may be difficult to believe, hardly anyone injapan has heard of the horizon scandal until very recently. when we spoke to fujitsu s japan former president in 2022 his reaction was horizon? what horizon? because it was developed by a british company international computers limited which fujitsu bought decades ago. icl had strong ties to the british government so it did give fujitsu an outsize presence in the uk and japanese companies often let international subsidiaries do their own thing especially the board lacks inter ....