Fujitsu will be held accountable over Post Office scandal, says government

Fujitsu will be "Held accountable" if it is found to have blundered in the Post Office scandal, the government has said. Questions are also being asked over why the firm has continued to win government contracts, despite the cloud of the Post Office scandal hanging over it. Despite revelations around Fujitsu's role in providing and supporting the Horizon software, which falsely indicated sub-postmasters were taking money from the tills, the firm has continued to win government contracts over the last decade. In 2022, the government removed Fujitsu from its list of preferred suppliers, but the firm is still able to win government contracts through the normal procurement process. ICL had been bought by Fujitsu in the 1980s after the Japanese government launched a campaign to counter the dominance of America's IBM on the world stage and gave financial support to three giant technology alliances, including Fujitsu.

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