Former Fujitsu staff under police investigation to face Post Office IT scandal inquiry | Computer Weekly
Summary
Two former Fujitsu workers, who are currently under police investigation for possible perjury, will give evidence and face questions in the statutory inquiry into the Post Office IT scandal. The pair were used as expert witnesses in trials of subpostmasters blamed for accounting shortfalls and prosecuted for theft and fraud based on computer evidence and are being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for potentially committing perjury. A multimillion-pound High Court case in 2019 proved that bugs in the Post Office’s computer system, which was supplied by Fujitsu, were to blame for unexplained accounting shortfalls. Evidence emerged that Fujitsu and Post Office staff knew of computer errors but failed to reveal them during trials of subpostmasters. Castleton was declared bankrupt after he refused to pay the Post Office £27,000 – money it said he owed because the accounts at his branch showed unexplained deficits over a 12-week period in 2004.