Ex-Post Office boss ‘gave Fujitsu bonus contract despite warnings’

Exclusive: Whistleblowers say Paula Vennells agreed to move archive, which risked destroying data that could clear operators

The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells gave Fujitsu a bonus contract in 2013 to take over an archive of branch data, despite warnings such a move would destroy evidence that might clear operators, whistleblowers have said.

Transaction information was “replatformed” on cost grounds from a “gold standard” external storage system known as Centera to one owned by the Japanese software company running the Post Office’s Horizon IT network.