“A 52-year-old woman was arrested today, Sunday, June 11, 2023, as a suspect in an ongoing investigation into the finances and finances of the Scottish National Party. The woman has been taken into custody and is being questioned by Police Scotland detectives,” the statement said. Scottish Police.
Police officials said No further comments can be made for ongoing proceedings.
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Ex-Prime Minister of Scotland arrested
Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, who was the SNP’s executive director for many years, was also arrested in early April as part of the same investigation, followed by the party’s former treasurer Colin Beattie two weeks later.
Both men were later released without charge, but under Scottish law they could be re-arrested pending further investigation.
A Scottish police inquiry from 2021 concerns the rule 600 thousand pounds to spend on the campaign for Scottish independence, but it is suspected that they were granted in another way.
Following Murrell’s arrest, police searched several properties, including his and Sturgeon’s home in Glasgow and the SNP headquarters in Edinburgh. He also confiscated a luxury camper van worth $100,000. Pounds, it was parked outside Murrell’s mother’s house in Dunfermline.
In mid-February this year Sturgeon announced her resignation from both the government and party leadership. He left both posts at the end of March after the election results of a new leader, Hamza Yusuf, were announced. Sturgeon was leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland for more than eight years, taking over both after the failure of the independence referendum in the autumn of 2014.
In announcing her resignation, Sturgeon argued that it was not related to current political events, but explained it as a result of stress from being in office for so long.
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