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Man, 46, arrested in connection with criminal investigation into Tory Baroness Mone's PPE Medpro
An arrest has been made in connection with the criminal investigation into PPE Medpro, the company that was awarded large government personal protective equipment contracts during the Covid pandemic.
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The man is understood to have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud and of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
PPE Medpro secured two contracts worth £203m to supply PPE in the early months of the pandemic after normal competitive tendering regulations were suspended.
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband, Douglas Barrowman, who have both acknowledged they were involved in the company, have previously been interviewed under caution by NCA investigators. Barrowman is not the person arrested on Wednesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/12/man-arrested-investigation-ppe-medpro
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The man is understood to have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud and of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
PPE Medpro secured two contracts worth £203m to supply PPE in the early months of the pandemic after normal competitive tendering regulations were suspended.
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband, Douglas Barrowman, who have both acknowledged they were involved in the company, have previously been interviewed under caution by NCA investigators. Barrowman is not the person arrested on Wednesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/12/man-arrested-investigation-ppe-medpro
Barrowman and Mone made £65 million from PPE Medpro, and at first lied about their ownership of it (the PPE it supplied was often defective). This is just what the Tories needed now - cronies arrested for pandemic fraud.