Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims

Paul Patterson questioned by MPs as firm continues to make millions from UK government contracts

Fujitsu's European boss has told MPs the company is not a parasite", after being criticised for continuing to make hundreds of millions of pounds from UK government contracts while refusing to give a compensation figure for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.

Two years ago Paul Patterson said Fujitsu had a moral obligation" to pay financial redress to the victims of Horizon - admitting it had known the accounting IT system was faulty since the 1990s - with the government estimating the final cost to taxpayers of payouts to be 1.8bn.