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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Sweney

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Fujitsu and post office clash over new rules on horizon data requests | Mind Blowing Facts

On the pavement outside the inquiry, wearing an overcoat
Paul Patterson, chief executive of Fujitsu Europe, wrote this year that he had ‘serious concerns’ about the Post Office continuing to pursue branch operators. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Fujitsu has begun forcing the Post Office to disclose whether Horizon data requests will be used to investigate a branch owner-operator for “any impropriety”, prompting objections from the state-owned body’s executives.

The development emerged in documents shown to the public inquiry into how hundreds of branch owner-operators were wrongfully pursued through the courts based on evidence from Horizon that was later found to be unreliable.

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