Tory peer Michelle Mone - Received £29m from PPE Medpro
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Does anyone else remember PPE Medpro? It was a company recommended by Mone for PPE fast-tracking (VIP lane) even before it had been incorporated. She lobbied multiple contacts in Government.
Mone denied involvement with Medpro; the company received contracts for £80mn and £122mn without competitive tender. When quizzed about Medpro she issued a statement. She was “neither an investor, director or shareholder in any way associated with PPE Medpro”, and she had “never had any role or function in PPE Medpro, nor in the process by which contracts were awarded to PPE Medpro”.
Now it turns out Mone and her children secretly received £29m from Medpro via an offshore trust.
Oh, and PPE Medpro provided clothing unsuitable for the NHS, then the company was shut down by HMRC and owing various creditors and taxes.
Even by current standards of ineptitude and corruption, this is bad.
Does anyone else remember PPE Medpro? It was a company recommended by Mone for PPE fast-tracking (VIP lane) even before it had been incorporated. She lobbied multiple contacts in Government.
Mone denied involvement with Medpro; the company received contracts for £80mn and £122mn without competitive tender. When quizzed about Medpro she issued a statement. She was “neither an investor, director or shareholder in any way associated with PPE Medpro”, and she had “never had any role or function in PPE Medpro, nor in the process by which contracts were awarded to PPE Medpro”.
Now it turns out Mone and her children secretly received £29m from Medpro via an offshore trust.
Oh, and PPE Medpro provided clothing unsuitable for the NHS, then the company was shut down by HMRC and owing various creditors and taxes.
Even by current standards of ineptitude and corruption, this is bad.
Surely you don’t mean Baroness Mone, one of David Cameron’s Life Peers…. Fraud? How embarrassing…..a fiver says the Tory party will save her, blame some civil servants, claim the Contract was fair and just but something unexpected happened to the stock and the usual covid excuse trotted out and the whole thing will get ignored. Kudos to the Guardian who were on to this before anyone else and led most of the investigation.
Hilariously, Mone recommended Medpro to the VIP fast lane, a week before the Company had been formed….
Hilariously, Mone recommended Medpro to the VIP fast lane, a week before the Company had been formed….
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 November 21:00
Super Sonic said:
Isn't this fraud? An imprisonable offence?
The company is under investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) for fraud; they did raid various properties Mone and her husband own. Not sure the Government have any appetite for admitting just how messed up (and corrupt) the PPE sourcing process was. Billions have been wasted (some of that stolen), and I'm sure "lessons will be learned". 
Yes, if the tories did anything about this, it would further expose the farcical nature of the PPE chumocracy and many more examples of multimillion fraud would become public knowledge. They’d be toast.
Amusingly I read about a couple who got a lucrative PPE deal, obviously delivered nothing of value but pocketed the cash, they left their London home and bought a nice big pad in the Cotswolds. As is the way, they tried to ingratiate themselves into the community, the community told them to do one with their ill gotten gains and the family had to pack up and leave….
If you want a quick read try the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Management of PPE contracts
The Summary reads (depressingly) The Department is in dispute with PPE suppliers on 176 contracts with up to £2.7 billion of taxpayers’ money at risk. The majority of these disputes relate to the quality of the PPE provided. Progress in resolving these disputes has been slow with 86 of the 176 still at the very first stage of the commercial resolution process with an estimated 35% that will not be resolved by 2023.
Amusingly I read about a couple who got a lucrative PPE deal, obviously delivered nothing of value but pocketed the cash, they left their London home and bought a nice big pad in the Cotswolds. As is the way, they tried to ingratiate themselves into the community, the community told them to do one with their ill gotten gains and the family had to pack up and leave….
If you want a quick read try the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Management of PPE contracts
The Summary reads (depressingly) The Department is in dispute with PPE suppliers on 176 contracts with up to £2.7 billion of taxpayers’ money at risk. The majority of these disputes relate to the quality of the PPE provided. Progress in resolving these disputes has been slow with 86 of the 176 still at the very first stage of the commercial resolution process with an estimated 35% that will not be resolved by 2023.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 November 21:11
pablo said:
Surely you don’t mean Baroness Mone, one of David Cameron’s Life Peers…. Fraud? How embarrassing…..a fiver says the Tory party will save her, blame some civil servants, claim the Contract was fair and just but something unexpected happened to the stock and the usual covid excuse trotted out and the whole thing will get ignored. Kudos to the Guardian who were on to this before anyone else and led most of the investigation.
Hilariously, Mone recommended Medpro to the VIP fast lane, a week before the Company had been formed….
Private Eye has had its eye on it for a very long time, too.Hilariously, Mone recommended Medpro to the VIP fast lane, a week before the Company had been formed….
Edited by pablo on Wednesday 23 November 21:00
pablo said:
Yes, if the tories did anything about this, it would further expose the farcical nature of the PPE chumocracy and many more examples of multimillion fraud would become public knowledge. They’d be toast.
Amusingly I read about a couple who got a lucrative PPE deal, obviously delivered nothing of value but pocketed the cash, they left their London home and bought a nice big pad in the Cotswolds. As is the way, they tried to ingratiate themselves into the community, the community told them to do one with their ill gotten gains and the family had to pack up and leave….
Link? Sounds (very!) apocryphal.Amusingly I read about a couple who got a lucrative PPE deal, obviously delivered nothing of value but pocketed the cash, they left their London home and bought a nice big pad in the Cotswolds. As is the way, they tried to ingratiate themselves into the community, the community told them to do one with their ill gotten gains and the family had to pack up and leave….
redback911 said:
The company is under investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) for fraud; they did raid various properties Mone and her husband own. Not sure the Government have any appetite for admitting just how messed up (and corrupt) the PPE sourcing process was. Billions have been wasted (some of that stolen), and I'm sure "lessons will be learned".
No doubt that the "lessons will be learnt" line will be trotted out.She will get to keep the 29 million. That much is a near certainty. As others have said, if they do anything about it, then more will be uncovered.
A lot of people in government and chums thereof did very nicely out of this at our expense.
Im one of those that wont forget. Sadly, its only likely to get worse.
It’s not a great sign when HSBC, of all banks, decides to drop you as a customer!
It will be a denial of knowledge about the whole thing from her and a long running legal case that will result in the standard lesson learnt/haven’t we got bigger things to distract you attention with in the end.
It will be a denial of knowledge about the whole thing from her and a long running legal case that will result in the standard lesson learnt/haven’t we got bigger things to distract you attention with in the end.
Castrol for a knave said:
She will get away with it and keep her millions and seat in the Lords.
Meanwhile, some penniless cleaner in Hackney will get 6 months for nicking a laptop.
Someone got prison time for £20k of bounce-back fraud (and rightly so), her offence could be considered to be over a thousand times greater!Meanwhile, some penniless cleaner in Hackney will get 6 months for nicking a laptop.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I'm expecting a few more stories like this as the wheels fall off the great covid gravy train.
Reading the excellent reporting on this in Private Eye suggests this is far from the only example of this. Of course the public enquiry, in theory, should route all of it out eventually but we know the story arcs most of those enquiries follow…Castrol for a knave said:
She will get away with it and keep her millions and seat in the Lords.
Meanwhile, some penniless cleaner in Hackney will get 6 months for nicking a laptop.
Yep.Meanwhile, some penniless cleaner in Hackney will get 6 months for nicking a laptop.
The sleaze seems to just slide right off anyone in government, or connected to government. They are Teflon.
Mezzanine said:
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I'm expecting a few more stories like this as the wheels fall off the great covid gravy train.
Reading the excellent reporting on this in Private Eye suggests this is far from the only example of this. Of course the public enquiry, in theory, should route all of it out eventually but we know the story arcs most of those enquiries follow…Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff