Fujitsu stays tight-lipped on Post Office compensation

Fujitsu has refused to say how much the company will pay towards the mammoth £1.8bn compensation bill for the Post Office scandal, currently being funded by the taxpayer.

- KATE DEVLIN

A top executive also admitted the company has so far set nothing aside to cover its contribution to those affected by what former prime minister Rishi Sunak described as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”.

Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft and false accounting because of Fujitsu’s faulty computer system, with some victims sent to prison or financially ruined.

Those whose convictions have been quashed are eligible for compensation, but MPs on the Commons business and trade committee heard one subpostmaster had wrongly been told they did not qualify.