Villa bought after cops homes raid

Mone and husband's £7m Algarve property

- NICK SOMMERLAD in Quinta do Lago, Portugal

BARONESS Mone has enjoyed a break with her husband at a villa bought three months after their homes were raided by police probing a £200million PPE deal.

The Tory peer and Doug Barrowman, who own a £20million London house, an Isle of Man estate and a £40million Caribbean home, acquired the £7 million Algarve property through an offshore firm last July, it can be revealed.

That was 23 months after the couple allegedly received £65million in profits from PPE Medpro Ltd.

The firm set up by their business associate Anthony Page is being sued for more than £130million by the Department for Health over gowns it claims could not be used in the NHS.

The couple and PPE Medpro deny any wrongdoing.

This week, Mone was pictured walking her pedigree dogs while businessman Barrowman brushed up on his golf skills at the exclusive Quinta do Lago resort.

After flying to Faro in Portugal on their £6million private jet last week, the pair eating out in cafes and restaurants nestled among the dunes a short drive from their luxury villa.

The Baroness is under a Parliamentary standards investigation into her role in winning Covid contracts for a firm set up days earlier.

Their homes in London and the Isle of Man were raided last April by officers from the National Crime Agency who are investigating "suspected criminal offences committed in the procurement of PPE contracts by PPE Medpro".

When it was first revealed the links between Mone and Page, who resigned as director of the company promoting her personal brand to set up PPR Medpro, she insisted she had "no role or involvement" in the new firm.