When you create a perfect storm and an environment which creates a pressure to act, you also encourage the suspension of independent review and governance of such transactions, that is usually in place for such transactions during normal times.
If you introduce processes that are at risk of illegal exploitation in an attempt to obtain fast action it doesn't mean that you should never attempt to detect and bring to account those responsible for those illegal actions.
There were loads of companies and suppliers that bent over backwards to help our country at a time of great need, It would be a egregious insult to those decent and law-abiding citizens If we were to simply let off all the corrupt criminals who stole our money on the basis that we were focused on other things at the times the crimes were being committed.
The statute of limitations on fraud in the UK is 6 years from when the fraud was discovered, not from when it was perpetrated so there's no reason why the CPS couldn't start putting together cases against the most egregious perpetrators.
