Mon, 22 Dec 2025

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago

The emergence of a document contradicts claims made by the Post Office over bugs in its IT system during criminal prosecutions.

* The agreement stated that Fujitsu would either fix problems or pay up to £150 per transaction if it failed to do so.
* This contradicts the Post Office's claims during criminal prosecutions that no bugs existed capable of causing accounting shortfalls.
* Between 1999 and 2015, over 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after the faulty Horizon IT system made it look like money was missing from branch accounts.
* A document reveals a financial framework to manage discrepancies and correct errors, which undermines the Post Office's claim that it did not know of problems with the Horizon system.
* The disclosure also shows that the Post Office knew about remote access to sub-postmasters' transactions as early as 2006.
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