Dutch to investigate business trio’s €100m face mask deal
by Jon Henley from World news | The Guardian on (#5JTA6)
Scrutiny of government procedures after not-for-profit' PPE contract led to 20m enrichment'
The Dutch government has promised an independent investigation into a supposedly not-for-profit 100m (86m) deal to buy face masks from China last year that ended up making three young entrepreneurs about 20m richer.
The investigative website Follow the Money (FTM) revealed that Sywert van Lienden, 30, a former civil servant turned TV pundit and activist, who co-wrote the manifesto of the Christian Democrat (CDA) party (part of the ruling coalition), netted 9.2m.
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