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UK government wins £122m ($160m) pandemic case against (Baroness) Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE
The Guardian ^ | Oct 1 | The Guardian

Posted on 10/01/2025 3:04:26 AM PDT by RandFan

The government has won its legal claim against a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone for the return of millions of pounds paid for personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.

The Department of Health and Social Care sued the company, PPE Medpro, in December 2022, arguing that it had not complied with PPE laws to ensure that 25m surgical gowns it provided under a June 2020 government contract were sterile.

The trial heard that the gowns, for which the DHSC paid £122m, were rejected after their first UK inspection in September 2020 and never used in the NHS. The gowns, manufactured in China, were labelled with a CE mark, denoting compliance with European standards, but no authorised quality assurance organisation had certified their safety and sterility.

Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, stand under an umbrella How the Michelle Mone scandal unfolded: £200m of PPE contracts, denials and a government lawsuit Read more Paul Stanley KC, representing the DHSC, argued that this meant the gowns “were invalidly CE marked … and did not comply with the law”. Stanley referred in his opening submission to a statement by a health official who had said of the gowns that “the potential impact on safety was such that they could seriously harm or kill patients and so could not be released for use”.

PPE Medpro, ultimately owned by Mone’s husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman, defended the claim in court

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COVID CORRUPTION? Freepers....

5 years on and this was the tip of the iceberg over $10bn of public funds had to be written off over useless gowns and masks? ...

The judge ruled today the "Lady" or rather the husband's firm has to pay back $160m. As you can guess they wont be.

The firm has already appointed administrators and ceased trading.

Further down in the article it points out:

'In November 2022, the Guardian revealed that Barrowman had been paid at least £65m from PPE Medpro’s profits, then transferred £29m to a trust set up to benefit Mone and her three adult children. Barrowman acknowledged in a BBC interview in December 2023 that he had been paid more than £60m and transferred money into the trust; the couple said that his children were beneficiaries as well.'

Absolute scandal. Let's hope she maybe gets kicked out of the House of Lords or something on ethics grounds (it's possible, not sure).

1 posted on 10/01/2025 3:04:26 AM PDT by RandFan
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