Tories took £50,000 donation from drugs firm boss who ‘ripped off NHS’

Tax fraudster Amit Patel has been banned from holding company director role for breaking competition law

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The Conservative Party accepted a £50,000 donation from a pharmaceutical boss who exploited a pricing rules loophole to hike up the cost of drugs sold to the NHS, it has emerged.

The Times reports that Amit Patel donated the money to the Tories during the general election campaign in 2017 - a year after the newspaper revealed that his company Auden Mckenzie was among several businesses that had drastically inflated the prices of old drugs.

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