SNP treasurer Colin Beattie released without charge pending further investigation, in Scottish police probe into party’s funding and finances
Police Scotland launched its Operation Branchfoot investigation into the SNP's finances in July 2021 after receiving complaints about how donations were used.
The SNP raised £666,953 through referendum-related appeals between 2017 and 2020 with a pledge to spend these funds on the independence campaign. Officers involved in the investigation spent two days searching the Glasgow home of Mr Murrell and Ms Sturgeon, and the party's headquarters in Edinburgh earlier this month.by officers from outside a property in Dunfermline on the same morning that Mr Murrell was arrested.reported that the vehicle had been parked outside the home of Mr Murrell's 92-year-old mother since January 2021.
Mr Beattie is the MSP for the Midlothian North and Musselburgh constituency and is a former international banker.
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