Spanish businessman was paid £21MILLION in taxpayers' cash to act as middleman for Florida-based jewellery designer selling PPE to the NHS, court documents show
Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson did 'very well under this arrangement' with Michael Saiger (left) who won Government contracts worth £197million as British ministers scrambled to buy masks and gowns in the spring. The extraordinary PPE deals done by the UK Government have been laid bare in court proceedings between Mr Saiger and Mr Andersson in Miami. Jewellery designer Michael Saiger, whose Miansai brand has stores in New York, Los Angeles and Malibu, decided to set up a new PPE business as coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020. It is not known how much money Mr Saiger made from the NHS contracts totalling £197million - but he has failed to provide all the masks, gloves and gowns he promised.
Fury over £18billion 'cash for cronies' PPE scandal: Labour demands to know Tory donors 'are NOT profiting from the pandemic' - but Alok Sharma refuses to apologise after report exposes 'jobs for pals' in rush to buy safety gear
Business Secretary Alok Sharma has denied allegations of wasting taxpayers' money, claiming the scramble to buy lifesaving clothing for the NHS came at a time of 'huge pressure' at the start of the pandemic and through the first wave. Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings were both drawn into the debacle after the spending watchdog said officials failed to consider potential conflicts of interests involving companies linked to them. The National Audit Office revealed that officials had signed contracts for hundreds of thousands of facemasks which turned out to be unusable - wasting hundreds of millions of pounds. Critics say the Government has frittered away huge sums in flawed PPE contracts with the 'taxpayer now reaping the ruin'.
The smile that says 'I bagged an £880k deal on PPE gravy train': How 23-year-old with no relevant experience was among firms who cashed in on government's 'shambolic' £12bn NHS safety equipment bonanza
The smile that says 'I bagged an £880k deal on PPE gravy train': How 23-year-old with no relevant experience was among firms who cashed in on government's 'shambolic' £12bn NHS safety equipment bonanza Companies with no experience pocketed £12bn on the Government's 'shambolic' PPE scramble As the coronavirus pandemic swept across Britain, a £12.3billion 'Wild West' opportunity emerged for any firms able to provide the NHS with protective equipment. Companies with no experience supplying PPE won lucrative Government deals. Now, the Daily Mail can reveal the firms behind the 'shambolic' scramble for contracts. One firm given a lucrative deal was Trade Markets Direct, a dormant company opened by former bookmaker Garry Morrill (inset) who had no relevant experience. Another firm that landed a lucrative contract was Euthenia Investments, run by 23-year-old Sabia Mokeddem (left and right), who had set up her company seven months earlier. Despite having no experience in supplying medical equipment, the investor from Lyon, France, was given £880,000 to supply 55,000 coveralls
Lord Feldman's PR firm started working for coronavirus testing company that landed £28million government deal AFTER he advised ministers on Covid-19
Lord Feldman insists he had no involvement in the award of the multi-million pound contract despite his business now advising Oxford Nanopore after he worked for the Department of Health.
A cynical & brazen cronyism: As new report reveals £18bn coronavirus PPE farce, DAVID ROSE argues this is not how public procurement in Britain is meant to work
DAVID ROSE: The mismanagement, the incompetence, the reckless waste - all of this is shocking. But worse, perhaps, is the brazen cronyism involved.
Revealed: Dominic Cummings's links with two of the four companies detailed in damning PPE report
The former chief adviser to the Prime Minister, 48, has connections to artificial intelligence firm Faculty and research company Public First, which have secured contracts worth more than £3.8million.
Pictured: The Spanish middleman who was paid £21MILLION of taxpayers' cash to set up PPE deal between the NHS and Florida-based jewellery designer
Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson, from Madrid, was paid £21million in UK taxpayers' money to help find manufacturers who could quickly provide millions of items of PPE for the NHS.
One in eight Covid-19 cases were recorded in the WRONG location due to Test & Trace blunder that listed students' positive tests at their parental homes
The error, which spanned the six weeks before Britain was plunged under a three-tier lockdown system, meant several university cities were unaware of the scale of the pandemic. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
One million jabs a day" is the headline in the Sun.
The paper says the NHS is planning to recruit 40,000 workers to help administer a coronavirus vaccine at speed as soon as one is approved.
The i newspaper says the UK is preparing to carry out the first vaccinations within a fortnight in the "biggest peacetime operation" in recent history.
The Telegraph says dozens of mass vaccination centres will be set up across the country - with one of the first confirmed locations at Pride Park football stadium in Derby.
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Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson did 'very well under this arrangement' with Michael Saiger (left) who won Government contracts worth £197million as British ministers scrambled to buy masks and gowns in the spring. The extraordinary PPE deals done by the UK Government have been laid bare in court proceedings between Mr Saiger and Mr Andersson in Miami. Jewellery designer Michael Saiger, whose Miansai brand has stores in New York, Los Angeles and Malibu, decided to set up a new PPE business as coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020. It is not known how much money Mr Saiger made from the NHS contracts totalling £197million - but he has failed to provide all the masks, gloves and gowns he promised.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8957919/Spanish-middleman-paid-21M-taxpayers-cash-NHS-PPE-deal.html
Business Secretary Alok Sharma has denied allegations of wasting taxpayers' money, claiming the scramble to buy lifesaving clothing for the NHS came at a time of 'huge pressure' at the start of the pandemic and through the first wave. Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings were both drawn into the debacle after the spending watchdog said officials failed to consider potential conflicts of interests involving companies linked to them. The National Audit Office revealed that officials had signed contracts for hundreds of thousands of facemasks which turned out to be unusable - wasting hundreds of millions of pounds. Critics say the Government has frittered away huge sums in flawed PPE contracts with the 'taxpayer now reaping the ruin'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8961343/Fury-18bn-PPE-scandal.html
The smile that says 'I bagged an £880k deal on PPE gravy train': How 23-year-old with no relevant experience was among firms who cashed in on government's 'shambolic' £12bn NHS safety equipment bonanza
Companies with no experience pocketed £12bn on the Government's 'shambolic' PPE scramble
As the coronavirus pandemic swept across Britain, a £12.3billion 'Wild West' opportunity emerged for any firms able to provide the NHS with protective equipment. Companies with no experience supplying PPE won lucrative Government deals. Now, the Daily Mail can reveal the firms behind the 'shambolic' scramble for contracts. One firm given a lucrative deal was Trade Markets Direct, a dormant company opened by former bookmaker Garry Morrill (inset) who had no relevant experience. Another firm that landed a lucrative contract was Euthenia Investments, run by 23-year-old Sabia Mokeddem (left and right), who had set up her company seven months earlier. Despite having no experience in supplying medical equipment, the investor from Lyon, France, was given £880,000 to supply 55,000 coveralls
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8959451/Companies-no-experience-pocketed-12bn-Governments-shambolic-PPE-scramble.html
Lord Feldman insists he had no involvement in the award of the multi-million pound contract despite his business now advising Oxford Nanopore after he worked for the
Department of Health.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8960797/Lord-Feldman-advised-ministers-Covid-19-company-landed-28m-government-deal.html
DAVID ROSE: The mismanagement, the incompetence, the reckless waste - all of this is shocking. But worse, perhaps, is the brazen cronyism involved.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8959887/DAVID-ROSE-Report-revealing-18bn-coronavirus-PPE-farce-cynical-brazen-cronyism.html
The former chief adviser to the Prime Minister, 48, has connections to artificial intelligence firm Faculty and research company Public First, which have secured
contracts worth more than £3.8million.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8959925/Exposed-Dominic-Cummingss-links-two-four-companies-detailed-damning-PPE-report.html
Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson, from Madrid, was paid £21million in UK taxpayers' money to help find manufacturers who could quickly provide millions of items of PPE for the
NHS.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8959423/The-Spanish-middleman-paid-21m-cash-set-PPE-deal.html
The error, which spanned the six weeks before Britain was plunged under a three-tier lockdown system, meant several university cities were unaware of the scale of the pandemic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
The paper says the NHS is planning to recruit 40,000 workers to help administer a coronavirus vaccine at speed as soon as one is approved.
The i newspaper says the UK is preparing to carry out the first vaccinations within a fortnight in the "biggest peacetime operation" in recent history.
The Telegraph says dozens of mass vaccination centres will be set up across the country - with one of the first confirmed locations at Pride Park football stadium in Derby.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-55010914