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Source: The Sun
'DIRTY DEALS' Nearly £4billion worth of Covid PPE contracts appear to be corrupt, bombshell report reveals
Kate Ferguson, Deputy Political Editor | 22 Apr 2021
NEARLY £4 billion worth of Covid PPE contracts appear to be corrupt, a bombshell report reveals.
A staggering one in five of all contracts doled out in the pandemic "raise one or more red flags" for being dodgy, a major new study found.
Source: The Sun
'DIRTY DEALS' Nearly £4billion worth of Covid PPE contracts appear to be corrupt, bombshell report reveals
Kate Ferguson, Deputy Political Editor | 22 Apr 2021
NEARLY £4 billion worth of Covid PPE contracts appear to be corrupt, a bombshell report reveals.
A staggering one in five of all contracts doled out in the pandemic "raise one or more red flags" for being dodgy, a major new study found.
NHS workers in Cambridge wear various forms of PPE (stock image) Credit: AFP
The Transparency International report slammed the VIP lane which gave high priority to companies referred by MPs, peers and top mandarins.
There appears to be "systemic bias towards those with connections to the party of government in Westminster", the study found.
And it lashed Whitehall for failing to keep a proper paper trail of why contracts were dished out to certain firms.
It found that 24 PPE contracts worth a staggering £1.6bn were handed out to people with known links to the Tories.
Between February and November last year, 98.9 per cent of Covid contracts were given without any competition, the report said.
Please go to The Sun to read more.
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