Profits Of Doom

A Private Eye Special Report

By Richard Brooks

The companies and middle men who cashed in on Covid... and how they did it.

As the greatest public health emergency for a century brought illness, bereavement and hardship to millions in the UK and presented taxpayers with a £75bn bill for extra health spending, a smaller band of opportunists was using that cash to fund the richest of private paydays. This is the story of the Covid profiteers who took advantage of a country in crisis and the government that let them get away with it.


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