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Fujitsu bosses paid £26m during Horizon contract


Accounts show former execs made millions while sub-postmasters were chased for thousands.

They show how directors were paid millions, while sub-postmasters were chased through the courts for tens of thousands of pounds they didn't owe, based on false data from Fujitsu's flawed computer system. Mr Tait's time at the top of the firm covered the period when the Horizon affair developed from a few media articles and documentaries into a national scandal. Mr Tait was revealed as the Fujitsu source who told Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells that Horizon was"like Fort Knox"- a claim she repeated in a letter to Parliament in 2020.

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