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Apparently it is still possible – if our politicians and law guardians have the will.

Here’s the BBC with the latest developments:

“The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.

“PPE Medpro, a consortium run by Mone’s husband Douglas Barrowman, was placed into liquidation at the Insolvency and Companies Court on Thursday.

“It follows a High Court ruling in October, which found that the firm breached a contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.

“PPE Medpro filed for administration in September, a day before the order to pay. HM “Revenue & Customs is separately owed £39m in tax.

“Records filed by PPE Medpro’s administrators have revealed it only had around £600,000 available to pay unsecured creditors.”

What has happened here is depressingly familiar in large-scale corporate wrongdoing: the operating company has been run to insolvency, leaving a shell with negligible assets, while the people who benefited most are legally separated from it.

Recovering the money seems a hopeless ask – but is it?

Liquidation makes recovery harder, but it does not end either the pursuit of justice or the possibility of getting money back…

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