Baroness Mone is accused of benefitting from a company she recommended for a Covid contract.
Between May and June 2020, PPE Medpro was awarded two government contracts worth £203m to supply masks and medical gowns.In December 2020, BBC NewsPPE Medpro said at the time that it had delivered 100% of the contract to the terms specified and that it had supplied equipment "fully in accordance with the agreed contract, which included clear terms as to technical specification and performance criteria of the products".
However, the commissioner says he is unable to finalise or publish his report because "the matter is under investigation by the police or another agency as part of a criminal investigation".Emails released under Freedom of Information laws show Baroness Mone referring the company to a government minister during the pandemic.
She told MPs it appeared "tens of millions of pounds" from the money awarded to the company "ended up in offshore accounts connected to the individuals involved".However, asked in December 2020 about reports she was linked to the company, her lawyers told BBC News she "had no role or function in PPE Medpro, nor in the process by which contracts were awarded to PPE Medpro".
The Department of Health said: "Due diligence was carried out on all companies that were referred to the department and every company was subjected to the same checks.
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