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Post Office inquiry live updates: Ex-executive van den Bogerd apologises to sub-postmasters - BBC News Post Office inquiry live updates: Ex-executive van den Bogerd apologises to sub-postmasters - BBC News
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A little earlier, van den Bogerd sais she was "disillusioned" with the Post Office, and that's what prompted her to leave in 2020 - not the outcome of trials in 2019. Beer now asks if, in an email sent to her on 5 December 2010, van den Bogerd had been given information that Fujitsu can put an entry into a branch account remotely.
In 2019, the Post Office agreed to pay them £58m in compensation to former sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted. Although much of the money went on legal fees. In response, she says yes.
Van den Bogerd said she felt disillusioned about the intent of the business, telling the inquiry: "We'd agreed with the settlement, and therefore we accept that's the position, and we should move on". Beer then turns to van den Bogerd's witness statement, where she says that pre-2011, she had no knowledge of the ability of Fujitsu employees to alter transaction data or data in branch accounts without the knowledge or consent of sub-postmasters.
She confirmed that it was the position of the Post Office that prompted her to leave, adding that she felt "pigeon-holed into the litigation". "But that's not right, is it?" he asks her, adding that she saw it in the 2010 email.
But, van den Bogerd added, she was asked to stay by Paula Vennells, because of her extensive knowledge of the business. She says she doesn't remember seeing that email, and without seeing it as part of the inquiry, she'd have no knowledge.
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