Covid contracts: Dog food vendor likely earned £1m for PPE deals
BBC News Published image captionZoe Ley, pictured here in 2015 The owner of a dog food firm brokered personal protective equipment deals worth £258m between the government and a Hong Kong firm, a BBC investigation has found. London-based Zoe Ley is likely to have been paid at last £1m by the firm for her work in securing the deals last spring when the UK was short of PPE. Ms Ley says she was approached by the UK's Covid taskforce when it was "seeking urgent assistance" to get PPE. The government denies this. Ms Ley has a background in finance and banking.
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