Nicola Sturgeon cleared in SNP finance probe
Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in a police investigation into the SNP’s finances.
Ms Sturgeon and former party treasurer Colin Beattie were both arrested in 2023 but released pending further investigation in the probe – named Operation Branchform by Police Scotland.
Mr Beattie was also cleared by police, who announced the move in a statement on Thursday.
The news comes after Ms Sturgeon’s estranged husband and former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell appeared in court charged with embezzlement.
Statement
In a statement, Police Scotland said: “Following direction from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, criminal enquiries into two people arrested as part of the investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party have now concluded.
“The 73-year-old man arrested on 18 April, 2023, and the 54-year-old woman arrested on 11 June, 2023, have not been charged and are no longer under investigation.”
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They knew she was innocent all along- it was a put up job to discredit the INDY movement and how long did this case take 2/3 years MI6 dirty tricks
Dirty tricks for sure but she wasn’t above a bit of that in her time either. Sadly her dirty tricks were pretty ineffective whereas the tactics of UK Gov agencies did for her.
Too true, the British state has been masters of such dirty tricks for many years.
Who is ‘They’ in this context?
Given that Sturgeon was the leader of an organisation that couldn’t account for a significant sum of money donated to it for a referendum campaign that never happened, and that £110,000 of the missing money appeared on her monther-in-law’s drive in the form of a motorhome, I think the police had every right to think she might know something about it.
Absolutely – and this is what the comments would be saying if she was a Tory.
First they came for the SNP.
Make no mistake, what we have witnessed over these past four years are the British state’s desperate attempts to completely demonise, discredit, Nicola Sturgeon. They have pulled out all the stops to assassinate her character both politically and personally. The tools and resources they have utilized have brought to the fore all the cohorts, legions of supporters, in the so called “Scottish” press and media, state broadcaster BBC, and all the sold out “Scottish” politicians who have acted as Westminster’s Rottweilers. These people have been been as vile, disingenuous, disrespectful, and underhanded, as they possibly could at any and every… Read more »