David Noakes (born March 1953)[1] is a British computer consultant,[2] businessman and politician, who founded Immuno Biotech Ltd. to promote the unproven therapy GcMAF[3] and came last in the 2006 UKIP leadership election.
[7] Noakes is CEO and owner of Immuno Biotech Ltd. (trade name First Immune), a Guernsey company that promotes the use of the protein GcMAF, a blood product, as a cure for cancer, autism, HIV, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases,[8][9] claiming to treat 10,000 patients worldwide[10] with income of £1 million per month.
[13] Noakes has been on the board of governors of the National Health Federation (a lobbying group promoting alternative medicine[14] ) since April 2016[15] and was on the long list for Guernsey Press Ambassador of the Year 2013.
[29] In November 2015, Noakes was found guilty by an employment tribunal of sex discrimination against his former personal assistant at Immuno Biotech, Lucia Pagliarone, and was made to pay £10,500.
[40] Noakes was charged with money laundering, and conspiracy to manufacture a medicinal product without a licence, by the Crown Prosecution Service's Specialist Fraud Division in July 2017.
[42] Noakes pleaded guilty in UK to "money laundering and manufacturing, supplying and selling an unlicensed medicine" and was sentenced in November 2018 to 15 months' imprisonment.
[43] In April 2021 Noakes pleaded guilty in France to manufacturing and selling fake medicinal products and cosmetics by Internet and sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment.
During the election campaign he called the EU a "police state" and advocated UKIP forming a shadow cabinet;[2][47] Nigel Farage won with 3,329 votes.
[57] Noakes runs the website EUTruth.org,[2] and since 2007 has published the free monthly newspaper Westminster News in which he promoted a conspiracy theory that Zionists and the German company Siemens control the BBC.