Case won, but I have this uncomfortable feeling that the government will never see the money back.

And what about all the other contracts for ultimately useless product bought through the "VIP lane"? It amounts to billions, and puts PPE Medpro in the shade.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/uk-government-wins-122m-pandemic-case-against-michelle-mone-linked-firm-over-faulty-ppe

#PPEMedpro #MichelleMone #Covid #VIPLane

#covid #viplane #gove #mone I fear we will all be waiting for flying pigs on this one. But thanks for the alert Jack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat/114742553413225010

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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/covid-conman-lied-1m-company-35445505

BBC News: Corruption review finds 'red flags' in more than 130 Covid contracts

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevj3y7n33vo

#Corruption
#Tories
#Covid
#CovidContracts
#VIPLane
#TransparencyInternationalUK
#CovidInquiry
#NAO
#PublicAccountsCommittee
#Reeves

The next stage of the covid PPE VIP lane scandal to be unearthed by @goodlawproject looks likely to be that 'a small group of senior civil servants created false evidence trails to try & cover up the fact that valuable PPE contracts were diverted to Tory VIPs'!

Yup, more evidence of the levels of Tory corruption.... and of course, as in so many previous political scandals, its the cover-up that may finally take down the participants

#covid #PPE #VIPlane #politics

The biggest VIP lane winner of the pandemic was a company called Innova. Good Law Project has seen a cache of documents from US courts about its 🤯 affairs.

Thread below

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1792466209557889317.html

#politics #viplane #goodlaw

Broker bought £7.25m manor house weeks after landing VIP lane contracts

'...£7.25m Berkshire stately home was bought in July 2020 with profits from contracts landed through the #Tories’ #unlawful #VIPLane – contracts where more than 40% of the money was spent on #PPE that the #NHS felt unable to use.

https://goodlawproject.org/broker-bought-7-25m-manor-house-weeks-after-landing-vip-lane-contracts/
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption #Covid19 #ProfitsBeforePeople

Michael Gove under investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-standards-watchdog-investigation-b2504660.html

#Gove
#Investigation
#HousingSecretary
#FinancialInterestsDisclosure
#RegistrationOfInterests
#StandardsCommissioner
#PPEContracts
#ToryDonor
#QPRFootballMatch
#QueensParkRangersFootballClub
#QPR
#LibDems
#Tories
#VIPLane
#MET
#Stewart
#Cates

Michael Gove lobbied by #Covid19 #VIPlane’s biggest winner of #PPE contracts

Exclusive: then #CabinetOffice minister had phone call with #Unispace, which weeks later got the first of £680m worth of deals
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/02/michael-gove-lobbied-by-covid-vip-lanes-biggest-winner-of-ppe-contracts
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption