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Michelle Mone branded liar in explosive TV documentary over £200m PPE scandal

Mone and her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman are being probed by the National Crime Agency over a £203million deal to supply NHS equipment during the pandemic.

Mone documentary exposes tale of PPE scandal

Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone has been branded a liar in a new TV documentary over her involvement in a PPE scandal.

Mone and her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman are being probed by the National Crime Agency over a £203million deal to supply NHS equipment during the pandemic.

She is alleged to have taken advantage of her House of Lords membership to use a “VIP fast lane” to recommend that PPE Medpro – led by Scots businessman Barrowman – supply the government.

Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman made admissions in a TV interview last year

A television documentary charts the rise of Michelle Mone to celebrity status and her fall from grace following her involvement in a controversial pandemic contract.

Lady Mone initially denied any role in PPE Medpro, a company led by her wealthy husband Doug Barrowman and which supplied £203m of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the health crisis. She later admitted in a TV interview that she lied.

In a new Channel 5 documentary The Michelle Mone Scandal: Where Did Our Money Go?, being shown on Monday night, ex-colleagues, and government officials describe how Mone transformed adversity into opportunity to reach the heights of the business world, creating the Ultimo lingerie brand and a string of other ventures.

But they also reveal her ruthless streak, fall-outs with colleagues and A-listers, such as the singer Rod Stewart, who crossed her as she climbed the greasy pole, at one point becoming a regular on the BBC show The Apprentice and touring the world giving talks to her acolytes who bought her message..

It began to fall apart after Mone, now living with her husband on the Isle of Man, became embroiled in a row over the PPE contract. It is at the centre of a National Crime Agency inquiry.

The couple have had £75m of assets seized, including properties in Glasgow. They deny any wrongdoing.

A spokesman for Mone and Barrowman said: “Faced with mounting public criticism of its COVID-19 response, and with individual ministers finding themselves personally implicated in arrangements with unsuitable suppliers, the previous government, via the Department for Health and Social Care, enlisted the resources and draconian criminal justice powers of the National Crime Agency, to mount a full-on legal attack against Baroness Mone and Mr Barrowman.”

The couple, who live on the Isle of Man, have had £75million of assets seized, including properties in Glasgow. They deny any wrongdoing. Jo Maugham KC, who leads the Good Law Project campaign group, said: “Michelle Mone took advantage of her political connections to sell duff PPE at enormous profit.

“The truth is if you are a peer you get special access. She was emailing Michael Gove using their private email addresses.”

Nadine Dorries, health minister from 2020-2021 added: “God loves a trier but never trust a liar. At a time when nurses were cutting up black bin bags in order to protect themselves, she was coining it in.”