£11.8BN LOST TO COVID FRAUD BUT NO ONE IN COURT

'Crackdown' call on firms feasting on Rishi dishes

- ANDREW BUCKWELL

PANDEMIC plunderers carried out a £12billion con on taxpayers - but no one has been brought to book.

Rogue traders claimed for subsidised meals never served under the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and for furlough cash to non-existent staff.

Labour business spokesman Justin Madders said: "It is hard to believe with the billions spent and the many stories of cash being wasted that no prosecutions have been brought.

"The Government needs to raise its game and crack down on fraudsters."