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Fujitsu suspends bidding for UK public contracts after Post Office scandal

Move follows criticism of Japanese company’s role in controversy that saw sub-postmasters convicted using flawed evidence

Fujitsu has agreed to suspend bidding for UK public contracts pending the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Alex Burghart, Cabinet Office minister, told MPs that the government had on Thursday received a letter from the Japanese company “voluntarily undertaking not to bid for government contracts”.

Fujitsu developed the flawed accounting software at the heart of the Horizon affair that resulted in more than 700 sub-postmasters being convicted of charges including theft, fraud and false accounting in cases brought by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015.

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