The former Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, have acknowledged for the first time that he made multimillion pound profits from two PPE deals during the Covid pandemic.
Mone also acknowledged for the first time that, as revealed by the Guardian last year, Barrowman then transferred money from those profits to a trust, the Keristal Trust, set up for the benefit of Mone and her three adult children. The couple said Barrowman’s children were also beneficiaries of the trust.
In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, Mone and Barrowman both also admitted they lied to the media for years when they denied they were involved with the company awarded the contracts, PPE Medpro Ltd.
Some excerpts from the article:
She told the BBC her life had been “destroyed” by allegations about their PPE profits, even though “we’ve only done one thing, which was lie to the press to say we weren’t involved”.
She said that was “not a crime” and added: “No-one deserves this.”
But a defiant Baroness Mone said: “I don’t honestly see there is a case to answer. I can’t see what we have done wrong.”
Mr Barrowman said that Baroness Mone “was always going to benefit, and my family will benefit in due course… her family benefit, my family benefit”.
“That’s what you do when you are in a privileged position of making money,” he said.
People fucking well died - a lot of them alone and frightened because they couldn’t have friends or family with them. There is no punishment severe enough for this shit show.
That’s an astoundingly tone-deaf interview that is up there with Prince Andrew’s Newsnight one.
Tone-deaf is a nice way of saying sociopathic in this instance.
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