From Newsgroup: uk.legal.moderated
quote:
The Post Office and Fujitsu agreed a deal 19 years ago to fix
transaction errors in sub-postmasters' accounts caused by bugs
in the Horizon IT system, a document has revealed.
An agreement was in place in 2006 for errors caused by bugs
in the software to be corrected, or for Fujitsu to pay the Post
Office up to u150 per transaction if it failed to do so.
The revelation directly contradicts the Post Office's claims during
criminal prosecutions - which led to hundreds of wrongful convictions
and civil cases that destroyed livelihoods - that no bugs existed
capable of causing accounting shortfalls.
It also shows the Post Office knew almost two decades ago that Horizon
could not always be relied upon to record transactions accurately.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly
prosecuted after the faulty Horizon IT system made it look like
money was missing from branch accounts.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlkx6n15ero
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