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The man who attempted to sell LV to private equity vultures has been brought back to the spotlight by the Post Office scandal. Before the private trial of hundreds of innocent postmasters due to a defect in the Horizon IT system began, Alan Cook was managing director of the Post Office from 2006 to 2010. He oversaw 161 charges for suspected robbery that resulted in 141 people being cleared and 56 being jailed.

Victims of the Tokyo IT company behind the software that destroyed their lives, including Sir Tony Blair. Despite being told that the firm's Horizon accounting software was 'increasingly flawed,' the former Prime Minister renounced the £900 million Post Office deal with Fujitsu in 1999. Now the MoS can reveal that Mr Blair had close links with the company going back years. He went to Japan for private briefings with Fujitsu executives in 1996, a year before he reached No. 10 and met the company's representatives in his Sedgefield constituency.

According to Rob Wilson, the firm's head of criminal law, the company should'grit its teeth and get to work prosecuting people.' Mr Wilson told colleagues in 2010 that 'untold' reputational harm could be done if they investigated allegedly flawed Horizon apps, according to an email sent during the long-running probe. Rather, the accounting records, which incorrectly made it seem that money was missing from hundreds of branches, would continue to be used as the basis for suing postmasters until 2015.

Gareth Jenkins, 69, had previously stated that the Fujitsu system was "not corrupt," which helped to wrongfully convict hundreds of postmasters. On two occasions, a Cambridge maths graduate from Bracknell, Berkshire, has been called in twice before to testify to the pending public inquiry into the Post Office investigation into the Post Office scandal, but it has been postponed. The Metropolitan Police are now looking into the involvement of another Fujitsu expert in the fallout, as Scotland Yard has also placed the Post Office under criminal probe last week for "potential fraud offences." When asked if he regretted what had transpired, Mr Jenkins refused to answer any queries regarding the affair, telling The Telegraph that he did not want to talk: "I don't want to talk." 'I have nothing to say to you,' I don't have anything to say.'

Yesterday, the former Post Office chief bowed to widespread public pressure and eventually renounced the CBE she received in 2019. However, campaigners said that her decision to hand over the award in a hurry was a token gesture and that it was time she faced "real justice." Ms Vennells, 65, received up to £5 million for being in charge of the Horizon IT scandal, in which hundreds of postmasters were wrongfully charged, bankrupted, and jailed.

Because the Horizon scandal is also running Britain's criminal justice system, post Office managers are being compelled to trust the IT firm at the center of the scandal to reveal their names. Victims who were wrongfully accused of dishonesty and robbery described it as 'perverse' and "another slap in the face' today as they attempt to reassemble their lives. They also promised to bring down the Japanese tech company Fujitsu by exposing the Post Office corruption in their home country, where a common 'culture of shame' can destabilize businesses. Next Tuesday, Fujitsu's chief would answer questions from MPs on the company and trade committee regarding the broken Horizon accounting system. Pictured left is Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake

The Japanese multinational, which is worth about £58 billion, has so far paid nothing to assist subpostmasters who have been wrongly accused of theft and fraud due to the company's ineffective Horizon system. Fujitsu could be hauled into court if the public inquiry finds it to blame, according to Downing Street. As part of the independent inquiry process, the Prime Minister's spokesman confirmed that "the culpability or otherwise of Fujitsu is something that is being investigated, so I'm not able to fully opine at this time.'

Hundreds of hundreds of post office workers who were wrongly accused of stealing money from the company due to an IT mistake was recounted in the four-part drama. Adam Crozier was CEO of Royal Mail Group between 2003 and 2010, when the Post Office was part of it, and subpoenas were being prosecuted through the courts, despite their assertion that the company's computer system, Horizon, was at fault. Coincidentally, he left the Royal Mail in 2010 to become chief executive of ITV and a director of ITV Studios, the production company behind Mr Bates vs. The Post Office, where he spent seven years. Viewers of the latest series have been quick to notice his absence and have asked why his character is not involved, with others claiming that the decision is a 'conspiracy.'

In retelling the tale of hundreds of subpoeds wrongfully accused of stealing by the Post Office, ITV seems to have left out a key figure - Adam Crozier, the head of Royal Mail Group who just happened to become the broadcaster's CEO.