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    Michelle Mone claims she has been treated like Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar over PPE scandal

    by Archie Mitchell Dec 25, 2023 2 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    Michelle Mone has complained she is being treated like notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar after her bank accounts were reportedly frozen by the National Crime Agency (NCA).

    The peer, who won government PPE contracts worth more than £200m during the pandemic, said on Sunday it had been “an extremely tough year of pain with frozen accounts”.

    Baroness Mone said she has had an ‘extremely tough year’ (PA)

    The NCA a year ago to prevent her moving cash while it investigates allegations of fraud and bribery around her PPE firm, .

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