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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Katie Dickinson

Judge ‘cannot be sure’ ex-MP cleared over Covid test firm knew of false results

Shahid Malik was one of five people charged over RT Diagnostics (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

A judge who cleared a former Labour minister over his role in a fraudulent Covid-19 testing firm said he “could not be sure” he knew the business was providing false negative results.

Shahid Malik was found not guilty of three offences relating to RT Diagnostics, which prosecutors said made £6.67 million in three weeks, but was a “shoddy and inadequate” service.

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