“I regret and am sorry.” A British parliamentarian admits to lying about lucrative contracts during the Corona pandemic

British House of Lords member Michelle Moon admitted that she repeatedly lied about her links to a company that won lucrative government contracts to supply masks and protective clothing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lingerie mogul Michelle Moon said she made a 'mistake' She denied her links to BPE Medpro, and expressed her regret for threatening to sue journalists who claimed she had ties to the company.

Her husband, Doug Barrowman, admitted that he was leading the consortium that owned the company.

Moon said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): On Sunday, “I made a mistake when I told the press that I had nothing to do with it. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I was not trying to cover anyone’s eyes, and I regret and am sorry that I did not say it directly. Yes, I am a party to it.” The command ".

Michelle Moon admitted that she was a beneficiary of her husband's financial funds, whose profits from the deal amounted to about 60 million pounds ($76 million), but she said that the couple had been turned into "scapegoats." In a broader scandal related to government spending during the pandemic.

“We did one thing, which was lie to the press to say we were not connected to it,” she explained, adding, “I can’t see what we did wrong.”

The case has become emblematic of the hundreds of millions of pounds wasted through hastily awarded contracts for protective equipment.

The British government was severely criticized for its so-called “VIP corridors.” During the pandemic, preferential treatment was given to public contracts for companies recommended by politicians.

Moon, the founder of underwear company Ultimo, was appointed to parliament's unelected House of Lords in 2015 by then-Prime Minister David Cameron, who is now the UK's foreign secretary.

A year ago, she said she was taking a leave of absence from Parliament to "whitewash her name." Of scandal.

Moon has repeatedly denied reports that she used her political connections to recommend BPE Medpro. For senior government officials.

It is worth noting that the newly established company won contracts worth more than 200 million pounds ($250 million) during the peak of the first Covid-19 wave in 2020.

Millions of surgical gowns it supplied to UK hospitals were never used, after officials decided they were unfit for use, and the government has since issued a breach of contract measure. The National Crime Agency is also investigating allegations of fraud and bribery.

"Newsweek" She describes Putin's words about Kissinger as an important signal to the United States

Newsweek reported: The American newspaper said that the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger are a signal to the United States to improve relations between countries.

Journalists Michael Gfeller and David Randle wrote that Putin's statements that Henry Kissinger's name is associated with a pragmatic foreign policy line that improves relations between the Soviet Union and the United States is a signal to Washington about improving relations.

“This statement was a very clear call to improve relations between Russia and the West,” the two journalists say. In their opinion, the United States continues to patronize Ukraine because it is more profitable - they can send Ukrainians to the front to die instead of sending their army.

However, the bet on a Kiev victory did not work out, and American taxpayers are already tired of paying for the support of retired Ukrainian civil servants.

The article concluded that the West supported the losing side in an unnecessary conflict that claimed the lives of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians, and the question now is what kind of relationship the United States and its allies can rely on with the Russian Federation.

President Putin, expressing his condolences on the death of Henry Kissinger, said that the deceased was an outstanding diplomat and a wise and far-sighted statesman.

Summing up the year's results, Putin said that Russia is ready to build relations with the United States, and this is important and necessary, but imperial policy is interfering in the United States itself.

The President stressed that when internal changes occur in the United States, they begin to respect others, then the basic conditions for improving relations will be created.