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Jun 05, 2023A key aide to Baroness Mone and her husband, Douglas Barrowman, has been sacked from the PPE company that received more than £200 million of taxpayers’ money after she lobbied ministers.
Anthony Page, an accountant, has also been removed from Barrowman’s offshore business empire for alleged gross misconduct. Page is contesting his dismissal at an employment tribunal on the Isle of Man.
The spectacular falling-out is the latest twist in the scandal surrounding PPE Medpro, a previously unknown medical firm awarded multimillion-pound contracts during the pandemic after Mone, a Tory peer, recommended the company to Cabinet Office ministers.
The company has been at the centre of a long-running bribery and corruption investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Mone, 51, has never declared a