Secret papers reveal Post Office knew its court defence was false

The only extract of the report the journalists show is, at the very least, misleading. They’re claiming that Fujitsu employees could do a type of requests which would (i) change the record of the transactions in the audit log and (ii) would actually impact the postmasters accounting position. However, the report actually states that these are two different types of requests, the first one doesn’t impact the accounting position and the second one (BTs) could change the accounting position but would be recorded in the audit log. The audit log shows that BTs, have only been used once in the period at hand so are unlikely to have caused the accounting shortfalls.

I would quite like to see the original Post Office “Defense” that is mentioned in the article, but don’t know where to find it. Would somebody have a clue?

[1] https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/pol0002...

In it, he said the Post Office would "instead address the issues through equivalent work taken forward in the litigation".

Now, the discovery of the draft Bramble report indicates that the investigation into Horizon, originally ordered by the government, actually continued in secret for more than a year, focusing on the branches involved in the case.

In it, Deloitte reviewed Horizon documents, examined transaction data and interviewed Fujitsu and Post Office staff. The purpose was to find out if Horizon was causing sub-postmasters' financial losses.

Deloitte found that while remote tampering by Fujitsu was possible, it would be "a complex procedure" and "likely a 'programme' would have to be written and performed".

In a table, the draft report detailed hundreds of debited transactions entered by "non-branch users", who the report explained "can access branches remotely for support purposes"."

The victims, I mean.

We can't have these hooligans running around exposing corruption at the highest levels. That's bad for business.