From people nabbed fleeing the country with suitcases full of bank notes to a former pub landlord accused of cashing his loan and sending it to the terrorist group ISIS, case after case is emerging of how money from the government's pandemic bounce back loan scheme may have been misused. So what went wrong? And is the government doing enough to fix it?

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Investigation: What happened to all the Covid loan money?