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The IT firm that sued the government for its own poor work also supplied the faulty equipment that saw innocent workers jailed for theft. How were they rewarded? With more state contracts, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
UNJUSTLY ACCUSED: Subpostmasters (left to right) Seema Misra, Janet Skinner, Jo Hamilton and Tracy Felstead we

COMPUTER corporation Fujitsu are involved in one of the worst miscarriages of justice of our times — the persecution of innocent subpostmasters, wrongly accused of theft.

This is not the only public scandal that which has involved Fujitsu — but thanks to the ongoing enthusiasm for privatisation and their own political lobbying, Fujitsu is still a favourite supplier to the public sector.

This month 39 subpostmasters, who had been found guilty of fraud and theft, had their convictions overturned at the Court of Appeal. They are among more than 500 subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for fraud in the local post offices they ran.

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