Boss of Post Office IT scandal firm Fujitsu to step down

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    "title": "Boss of Post Office IT scandal firm Fujitsu to step down",
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    "excerpt": "Boss of Post Office IT scandal firm Fujitsu to step down.\n\nThe European boss of Fujitsu, the company which built the IT system at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal, is to step down in March.\n\nEurope chief executive Paul Patterson, 60, will become non-executive chairman of Fujitsu's UK business, where he will \"continue managing the company's response\" to the inquiry into the scandal.\n\nThe announcement is part of a long-planned transition, and Patterson is expected to stay with the company until the inquiry process is complete.\n\nPatterson has played a prominent role in Fujitsu's response to the Horizon scandal, representing the company at the public inquiry into the affair, and at House of Commons select committee hearings.\n\nHe has been criticised for the firm's decision not to pay compensation to victims until the inquiry has published its final report.\n\nThe Horizon IT system, which began operating in 1999, falsely created shortfalls in Post Office branches for which sub-postmasters were held liable.\n\nMore than 900 people were prosecuted, and some went to prison, in what has been called the one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Some died while waiting for their names to be cleared and compensation paid.\n\nThe first report from the official inquiry into the scandal found it may have led to more than 13 people taking their own...",
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