Fujitsu should repay ‘fortune’ spent on Post Office scandal if guilty, says government
IT giant Fujitsu should repay the “fortune” spent on the Post Office scandal if it is found culpable, justice secretary Alex Chalk has said.
No 10 said on Thursday that Rishi Sunak’s government “fully intends” to make Fujitsu foot the bill for the scandal if the IT giant behind the faulty Horizon software is found culpable.
And Mr Chalk said the government will want to “secure proper recompense on behalf of the taxpayer” if the public inquiry delivers a damning verdict on the firm.
It comes as a investigator described as having a “heavy footprint” is due to give evidence for the inquiry’s first hearing of the year on Thursday.
