Michelle Mone under pressure over £18m office complex linked to firms at centre of Covid PPE scandal

11.12.2022 - 20:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk

An £18million office complex run by Michelle Mone is linked to the same network of companies at the centre of a Covid PPE scandal. The bra baroness is now being urged to explain if the Neospace site in Aberdeen was funded by public money from UK Government Covid contracts.

A Sunday Mail investigation into the site’s ownership has discovered how those running under-fire PPE Medpro are also involved with the luxury office complex, which was launched by Mone months after she is alleged to have secretly received £29million in profit from the Government PPE contracts.

Calls are now being made for an investigation into the funding of the office complex. Ian Murray, Labour MP and shadow Scottish secretary, said: “We need an investigation into whether the funds from PPE Medpro were used to pay for this project. The public deserve answers now.

“The Michelle Mone scandal is still unfolding and every new story casts more doubt on the integrity of the current Government. All the Prime Minister can do is say he’s shocked but the public want their money back. We have been given no answers and nobody has taken responsibility for this.

"If these allegations are proven true, Michelle Mone must resign and be stripped of her title.” SNP MP Kirsty Blackman, who represents Aberdeen North, said: “The public deserve answers on exactly how much money she and her family have made from these contracts, what they did with that money and what tax arrangements were made.

"The Westminster government is broken and rife with cronyism.” Mone, who has taken a leave of absence from the Lords, is under intense scrutiny after her husband’s links to PPE Medpro emerged. Medpro was awarded more than £200million in public money to provide PPE during the pandemic