POST Workplace boss Paula Vennells was advised of issues with the Horizon system two years earlier than she advised MPs there was no subject, secret audio recordings revealed final night time.
The then CEO was warned in 2013 throughout a gathering with impartial investigators.
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They advised her of claims sub-postmasters’ department accounts could possibly be accessed remotely — one thing the Submit Workplace was denying. And she or he was additionally advised her firm’s denials of faults with the system was “harmful” and “silly”.
A recording of the assembly was obtained by ITV Information.
The assembly got here because the Submit Workplace was nonetheless taking sub-postmasters to court docket over department shortfalls.
A whole bunch have been wrongly convicted of fraud and different offences between 1999 and 2015. It later emerged workers at Fujitsu, which constructed the IT system, have been in a position to entry the accounts remotely and have been fixing bugs attributable to the defective programme.
The recording seems to point out Ms Vennells was advised that Fujitsu workers might do that. But two years later in 2015 she advised MPs it was “not doable” to be remotely accessed.
Ms Vennells, who returned her CBE in February, has not commented on the recording being launched. POST Workplace boss Paula Vennells was advised of issues with the Horizon system two years earlier than she advised MPs there was no subject, secret audio recordings revealed final night time.
The then CEO was warned in 2013 throughout a gathering with impartial investigators.
They advised her of claims sub-postmasters’ department accounts could possibly be accessed remotely — one thing the Submit Workplace was denying. And she or he was additionally advised her firm’s denials of faults with the system was “harmful” and “silly”.
A recording of the assembly was obtained by ITV Information.
The assembly got here because the Submit Workplace was nonetheless taking sub-postmasters to court docket over department shortfalls.
A whole bunch have been wrongly convicted of fraud and different offences between 1999 and 2015. It later emerged workers at Fujitsu, which constructed the IT system, have been in a position to entry the accounts remotely and have been fixing bugs attributable to the defective programme.
The recording seems to point out Ms Vennells was advised that Fujitsu workers might do that. But two years later in 2015 she advised MPs it was “not doable” to be remotely accessed.
Ms Vennells, who returned her CBE in February, has not commented on the recording being launched.
