Fort Knox

The $100m-facility is often dubbed Asia's Fort Knox.

Mr Tait was revealed as the Fujitsu source who told Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells that Horizon was "like Fort Knox" - a claim she repeated in a letter to Parliament in 2020.

Ex-Fujitsu boss admits calling Horizon 'Fort Knox'

A former head of Fujitsu UK has admitted that he told former Post Office boss, Paula Vennells, that the Horizon IT system was like "Fort Knox".

In a statement to the BBC, Mr Tait said: "As the public inquiry is already aware, I did refer to Fort Knox in a conversation with Paula Vennells - this was in relation to the cyber and physical security of Horizon and was unrelated to the remote access issue."