A British phone accessories company owner was paid £1.8 million in 'kickbacks' to act as a middleman for the government and buy PPE from China. Khalid Hassan, 38, owns Birmingham company Byte Technology, which specialises in mobile accessories and spare parts - though its latest accounts say it has assets of just £12,000. It has now been revealed that, at the start of the pandemic, Hassan helped negotiate a contract between the Department of Health and Chinese manufacturers for 288 millions items of PPE. Khalid Hassan said he received 'kickbacks' in cash for every shipment of PPE that arrived in the UK from China