LONDON -- Japanese IT giant Fujitsu is facing growing calls to compensate post office operators who were wrongly prosecuted based on data from its faulty accounting software in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the U.K.
Over 700 operators were prosecuted for false accounting, fraud and theft between 1999 and 2015 by the Post Office, a state-owned business that operates over 11,500 branches. The Post Office has the right to bring a private criminal prosecution, as do all companies and individuals in England and Wales.
