Three entrepreneurs have been ordered to pay back €20.7 million that they earned from a deal to source face masks and other PPE from China at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Not to the Dutch government, but to a non-profit company they founded.
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Neither Van Lienden and his friends – who are also standing trial for fraud – nor the health ministry come out of this with any credit at all.