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Ex-councillor guilty of running sham Covid-19 lab
Prosecutors said the firm reported just 45 positives from 138,738 PCR tests and issued false negatives that could let infected people circulate.
- Former councillor Faisal Shoukat was convicted of fraudulent trading, causing public nuisance, and money laundering following a trial at Bradford Crown Court regarding the bogus Covid testing laboratory RT Diagnostics.
- Prosecutors claimed the firm was a "cash cow" set up to exploit the Government's test and trace system, generating £6.67 million in three weeks while operating in "shoddy and inadequate premises" in Halifax.
- The laboratory provided false negative results, with only 45 positive reports from more than 123,000 samples submitted between May and July 2021, while staff dumped untested samples in a room on the premises.
- His Honour Judge Chris Smith cleared former Justice Minister Shahid Malik and three others of all charges after discharging the jury in April due to alleged tampering, then delivering verdicts himself.
- Malik stated the verdict marks the end of a "painstaking five-year judicial process," expressing profound relief at being found not guilty after maintaining his innocence throughout the ordeal.
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Yorkshire Evening PostFormer Yorkshire MP cleared of role in bogus Covid-19 testing firm
A former Labour minister has been cleared by a judge of his role in a fraudulent Covid-19 testing centre.
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