Fujitsu
 Fujitsu  (Corporation)    | |
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| The Fujitsu Horizon scandal led to the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history |
Fujitsu Limited is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. It is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and it is the largest in Japan as of 2021.
Products
Fujitsu's hardware offerings mainly consist of personal and enterprise computing products, including x86, ARM and mainframe-compatible server products. The corporation and its subsidiaries also offer diverse products and services in data storage, telecommunications, and advanced microelectronics. It has approximately 124,000 employees supporting customers in over 50 countries and regions.[1]
Horizon
In partnership with British firm ICL (taken over in April 2002), Fujitsu designed, developed and operated the Horizon IT system which was at the centre of the Fujitsu Horizon scandal, the legal dispute between the UK Post Office and its sub-postmasters (SPMs). The case, still unsettled, found that the Horizon system was unreliable and that faults in the system caused discrepancies in branch accounts which were not the responsibility of the SPMs themselves. Mr Justice Fraser, the judge hearing the case, noted that Fujitsu had given "wholly unsatisfactory evidence" and there had been a "lack of accuracy on the part of Fujitsu witnesses in their evidence". Following his concerns, Fraser sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Fujitsu was also found to have pressured the UK government to sign off the controversial and faulty IT system that, as a result of its faulty operation, resulted in numerous UK postmasters and SPMs being accused falsely, and subsequently convicted of theft, false accounting and fraud, with consequences including imprisonment and monetary reparations.[2] Of the hundreds of people affected, as of January 2024 only around 1 in 9 of those convicted have had their convictions overturned, whereas others have died due to the length of time that has elapsed, or have taken their own lives in the wake of their wrongful convictions.
Although there has been some media coverage of organised legal appeals by groups of those affected, the matter has recently gained enhanced attention by mainstream media and the wider public as a whole, and is currently being acted upon by authorities in an attempt to accelerate and automate the clearing of the names of all those wrongly convicted, who until now were required to launch their own legal appeals to have their names cleared.[3]
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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| Michael Keegan | Five senior positions | March 2006 | July 2018 |
References
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