UK Government investigated for Cronyism - Covid Contracts

In the UK major politicians never seem to go to jail. 
Although this time might be different... 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-contracts-vip-lane-ppe-b1940277.html

Matt Hancock "former" UK health minister (with no medical expertise) was married with young kids before being recently caught having an affair with a woman who owned a lobbyist company.
This lobbyist company was involved in awarding contracts for Covid health requirements to "friends" of senior government officials.
She was also given a government employment contract by Hancock- so she was also officially part of the government. 

PPE supplies are being looked at because friends of the government won contracts- without having tender processes. 
Something like £40 billion was spent, and many believe it was squandered.
The test and trace system were an utter shambles, before eventually being taken over by NHS. 

Hancock was also caught awarding a contract to his "neighbor" and "friend". 

If it could be proven that other suppliers offered a better solution, it could potentially be guilt of culpable homicide. 
So not only is it not following due diligence and procedure which may be negligence, but it could also be fraud/bribes - and it could have indirectly caused the murder of thousands of people by culpable homicide. 

Making a mistake is one thing but committing fraud that could cause murder is something far more serious- given it impacted the whole of the UK. 

Hancock's father-in-law died from Covid while he was having an affair, and Hancock was the first politician in the world to get Covid. Hancock may have actually infected and killed his former father-in-law. 
Handcock and the Lobbyist are now happily married...and are looking to live happily ever on the deals they brokered. 

I always suspected Hancock was a weisel, and the type of politician that was on the take. 
Someone that represents the campaign donors by accepting bribes to act on their behalf. 

He was actually recently appointed to oversee Africa's Covid Health recovery plan, but that employment offer was retracted. No doubt they learned about this slime's recent backstory.  Fired from his job and then somehow offered a job to oversee Africa's health recovery- is an insult to Africa, and to anyone that wants someone committed and capable involved in something of this significance.   

2020

May

A healthcare firm, which employs Conservative MP Owen Paterson as a paid consultant, won a £133m contract unopposed to produce Covid-19 testing kits, the Guardian reveals.

State contracts worth more than £1bn have been awarded to private companies dealing with the pandemic, without offering other firms the chance to bid for the work, the Guardian reports.

June

The Financial Times reports that the UK government handed contracts worth at least £1.7bn to private companies in the previous three months, mostly without a competitive tender process.

July

The BBC reveals that a Tory councillor received major PPE contracts to supply face shields worth £120m in total.

The Sunday Times goes on to report in November that the same man, then a former Tory councillor, was awarded a further £156m to provide gowns and masks and bought a £1.5m Cotswold mansion with the proceeds.

August

Fifty million masks are withdrawn because of safety concerns, the BBC finds. The masks were bought by the UK government in April as part of a £252m contract and could not be used because they did not meet its specifications.

November

The BBC discovers that Britain's safety watchdog felt political pressure to approve the use of PPE suits, which had not been tested to the correct standard.

A Spanish businessman acted as a go-between to secure protective garments for NHS staff in the coronavirus pandemic and was paid $28m (£21m) in UK taxpayer cash, the BBC reports.

The Times says a report revealed that ministers set up a VIP fast-track channel to buy billions of pounds of PPE from companies who had political contacts with the government and MPs.

December

Millions of hospital gowns that cost £122m were never used, the BBC reports. They were bought at the end of the first lockdown from a supplier which had set up just a month earlier and the contract was not opened to competition due to the exceptional urgency of the coronavirus pandemic.

2021

February

The use of 10 million sterile surgical gowns is suspended because of concerns over how the items were packaged. The gowns were bought for £70m from a US firm in 2020.

A court rules Matt Hancock acted unlawfully when his department did not reveal details of contracts it had signed during the Covid pandemic.

The Department of Health and Social Care tells the BBC that 1.12 million masks had been withdrawn because they did not meet the right safety standards. The distribution of some gloves was also suspended because they may not have met technical requirements.

The medicines regulator announces it is investigating a £30m Covid contract that was awarded to a firm owned by a man who used to run a pub near Matt Hancock's old constituency home in West Suffolk and which had no history of medical goods.

March

It is revealed that dozens of Covid contracts had not been published when Boris Johnson assured MPs they were "on the record for everyone to see".

A BBC investigation reveals a former investment banker, who now owns a dog food firm, brokered PPE deals worth £258m between the government and a Hong Kong firm. The work was likely to have earned her more than £1m.

April

Documents uncovered after an apparent admin error reveal the role of a former Tory parliamentary candidate and party donor in a £100m government deal to buy PPE.

Update 4 May 2021: With regards to the BBC story published in August 2020, Tim Horlick, chief executive of Ayanda Capital, insisted the masks were "not unusable or unsafe" and had met all required standards.

Hancock is still very much married to his long Covid stricken wife ! 

This is what happened in SA where the Health Minister was investigated and fired by the Government and is exactly what is happening on an even larger scale in the USA  - where the Faucci corrupt group are also involved.      

The fact is that whenever there is a crisis in anything in the world - there are beneficiaries making money out of the crisis.    A typical example is the issue of China-linked companies and for  those people all crisis situations  are used to benefit them.   

In the  case of one China-linked businessman that got 25% richer in  the past year is Johann Rupert who is by now worth  virtually  $10 billion.    Not much compared to the wealthiest Americans  - but certainly also worth much more than anybody else in South Africa.     Rupert is keeping much of his wealth outside of SA and .his major interest in SA was recently when he made R1 billion available  for Covid assistance to struggling small and medium enterprises , but who  would not allow the Government to handle the allocations.    

At this stage from a SA perspective he is worth R146 billion and the R1 billion was in fact small change.    From a SA perspective he is - together with Motsepe - another dollar billionaire - the functional owners of the Bulls Rugby franchise (they own 74,5% shares in the Bulls Franchise).    I suspect the next take-over is going to be the Stormers with a similar arrangement made to save that bankrupt rugby franchise.    Not much more than a billion Rand would need to take over control on a similar basis and for him and Motsepe that is small change.

As a hobby he has one of the biggest collection of ultra luxury vehicles in the world - which is on public show in Franshoek,.    His son drives a second hand Toyota  after smashing his fathers Ferrari  in an accident.   

Denny will be interested as well,   while his wife and sister either own or has the majority share in the biggest race horse stud farm in  SA and Newgate stud farm in Ausrtralia  the latter with stallions  Brutal, Capitalist, Cosmic Force and Deepfield, while at the Drakenstein  stud their stallions are Trippi, Duke of Marmalade, Futura, Gold Standard,  One World and What a Winter.      .    .   

His sister also have another hobby - she is part of the search of schools for rugby and other sport talent and send them at her cost to  Paul Roos Gymnasium  for schooling and preparation for a career in sport., paying all their costs and also giving them  a pocket money allowance.   

Wonderful to be a billionaire and Rupert and Motsepe are probably the only two people who can save the  Stormers rugby franchise from going out of existence.   From a political perspective  Motsepe and Rupert met Trump at Davos and  Motsepe praised him  after the meeting - which caused a political storm in SA - with Motsepe claiming he was misquoted by the media.     Motsepe's sister - a medical doctor herself - is married to R amaphosa.

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A bit off the topic Mike. 

Brazil may be arresting their president for Covid response, and Matt Hancock could be the fall guy for the UK, 

The biggest crooks are in the USA - with the really thoroughly corrupt Biden nominally in charge  should b top of the list.