The police have raided the London home of Tory peer Michelle Mone as part of a police fraud probe into multi-million pound PPE deals relating to a company she has been linked to. The National Crime Agency is investigating deals by PPE Medpro, a company set up by a business associate of Baroness Mone.
Her £11m London home, owned by an offshore company linked to her husband’s Isle of Man business, is one of a string of properties raided by NCA officers this week. It is understood a special unit within the NCA have been looking into the allegations for a year.
PPE Medpro won more than £200m in Covid contracts from the Department for Health in 2020 after Baroness Mone referred the firm to the Cabinet Office via the so-called “VIP lane”.
Full story in The Mirror, 29 April 2022