Michelle Mone, the Conservative peer and Ultimo Bra tycoon has admitted to misleading the media about her links to PPE Medpro – a company led by her husband Douglas Barrowman, and which supplied personal protective equipment to the National Health Service during the Covid pandemic.
PPE Medpro was first awarded contracts worth more than £200m in the summer of 2020.
However, it later emerged the contracts were awarded after Baroness Mone had recommended the company to the then Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.
The National Crime Agency launched an investigation into the company in April 2022 for suspected criminal offences relating to the procurement of PPE contracts.
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