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#PostOfficeScandal #FUJITSU #Accountability #Bushido #Ethics #Integrity #Honour Fujitsu shares plunge 14% — worst fall in 11 years — after profits miss estimates. Down 27% this year while the Topix index is UP 9%. The company that helped destroy hundreds of innocent lives can't even deliver for its shareholders. Accountability is coming from multiple directions. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @Fujitsu_Global @PostOffInquiry @liambyrnemp @CommonsBTC @PostOffice @biztradegovuk @The_Real_JSP @Janetsk20073533 @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords @AmbJapanUK @JpIndustryNews @JAPANinUK @GraylingUK @japan @CommonsForeign @FCDOGovUK @TimBushLondon @rbrooks45 @Karlfl @bryanglick @nickwallis @hmtreasury

THE LAWYERS WHO HELPED JAIL INNOCENT POSTMASTERS ARE NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION 10 barristers under investigation by the Bar Standards Board @barstandards. 20 solicitors probed by the SRA. For their role in the Post Office Horizon scandal that destroyed nearly 1,000 lives and killed at least 13 people. They weren't just defence lawyers doing their job. They were strategy advisers. They argued a broken IT system was fine. Some tried to remove the judge. Hearings expected this summer. Nobody jailed yet. Nobody compensated properly yet. The legal profession is now asking why so many lawyers "crossed lines." Bit late but sure, crack on. Source: @LawGazette |

#PostOfficeScandal #Capture The Post Office asked the Court of Appeal for two more months. The court said no. Steve Marston was convicted in 1997 over a near-£80,000 shortfall produced by Capture — the accounting system that preceded Horizon and shared its talent for inventing debt. He has waited twenty-nine years. The Post Office felt a further eight weeks was reasonable. The judiciary, at last, is naming the pattern: delay, deflect, deny. Roughly thirty Capture prosecutions still sit with the CCRC, each to be handled "case-by-case" — institutional shorthand for as slowly as we can manage it. Patricia Owen, the first Capture referral, has been dead since 2003. We were promised a new culture under new management. On this evidence the only thing that has changed are the faces in the PR Dept. share.google/FnKgQjHvBhDbTu… @Karlfl @ComputerWeekly

Barristers that ‘failed in duties’ to face probe over Post Office scandal #postofficescandal #postofficeinquiry #Fujitsu #PaulaVennells cityam.com/barristers-tha…

Bar Standards Board reveals multiple live investigations into barristers’ role in Post Office Horizon scandal Barristers face at least ten investigations over Post Office Horizon scandal #postofficescandal #postofficeinquiry #Fujitsu #PaulaVennells lawgazette.co.uk/news/bsb-revea…

THE WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CRACKED THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN UK LEGAL HISTORY Richard Roll @Fujitsu worked on the Horizon system. In 2015 he went on @BBCPanorama and told them Fujitsu engineers had remote access to subpostmaster accounts and could change the numbers in secret. @PostOffice called that impossible. It was their entire defence. 700 people had already been prosecuted on the back of it. Post Office response: send lawyers to intimidate the journalists' sources. Hide Roll's identity from them. Call it a briefing. Call it protecting the brand. Roll gave evidence in the 2019 High Court case. It helped prove the system was defective. Convictions started falling. Since the ITV drama aired, Fujitsu has collected around £510 million in new UK government contracts. Victims are still waiting for compensation. One man spoke up in 2015. The institution spent a decade making sure nobody heard him. Sources: @BBCPanorama / @ComputerWeekly / @guardian / Others

THE MAN THEY CALLED A NUTTER JUST GOT A KNIGHTHOOD In 2003, the Post Office fired Alan Bates from his small branch in Llandudno, Wales. The reason? He refused to repay £1,200 that the Horizon computer system had invented out of thin air. He invested £65,000 in that post office. He made 507 calls to the helpline. He kept meticulous records proving the software was broken. The Post Office's response was to terminate his contract and walk away. Their own internal documents called him "unmanageable." People at industry conferences called him a nutter and a thief. He couldn't afford a hotel room at one protest event. He slept in a tent. So naturally he spent the next 20 years building the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, dragging the Post Office into the High Court, winning a landmark judgment in 2019 that proved Horizon was riddled with bugs, errors and defects, and triggering the overturning of more than 900 wrongful convictions. Over 900 people were prosecuted. Around 700 convicted. 236 went to prison. The scandal was linked to at least 13 suicides. The compensation bill has now passed £1.2 billion. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) knew about the bugs from 1999. The Post Office (@PostOfficeNews) knew. They prosecuted people anyway. Then they destroyed the evidence, sacked the forensic accountants when they got too close to the truth, and deleted social media comments from victims. Paula Vennells, the CEO who presided over much of it, collected a CBE. She kept it for years. Bates turned down an OBE in 2023 specifically because of that. He finally accepted a knighthood in 2024. After the ITV drama. After the public inquiry. After the nation had caught up with what he'd been saying since 2003. Twenty years. Sleeping in a tent. Called a thief by the people who were supposed to represent him. Sir Alan Bates was right from the start. The institution was lying from the start. That is the whole story. Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews | @ITVNews | @guardian |

“Shame on them” - Post Office seeks delay in second Capture case at Court of Appeal. 👇 news.sky.com/story/shame-on…

Capture was a faulty Post Office computer system – used before the Horizon scandal – which saw hundreds wrongfully convicted of theft. Horizon victims have all been exonerated, but Capture victims say they're still waiting. trib.al/5hDM9YD