It's more shocking than that. It's just one example of a culture of corruption that pervades government and government-adjacent contracting in the UK.

Fujitsu acted like thugs not just to save face, but because important shareholders would lose money if the truth came out.

Also, this kind of thing:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/fujitsu-post-office-scandal...

The PM's father in law is the head of Infosys. The PM's wife still has significant holdings in Infosys. Infosys and Fujitsu have a close partnership.

And so on. It's corrupt from top to bottom. The UK government is effectively the marketing wing of the huge public sector corporates, who invariably seem to have senior Tories and Tory donors on their boards.