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Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 10:40
by UndercoverElephant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65187823
The husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with an investigation into Scottish National Party finances.
Peter Murrell, 58, was taken into police custody on Wednesday morning.
Police Scotland said officers were carrying out searches at "a number of addresses as part of the investigation".
Mr Murrell resigned as the party's chief executive last month, a post he had held since 1999.
He has been married to Ms Sturgeon since 2010.
So now we know why she resigned "out of the blue". I wonder whether she can avoid being implicated in the crime. IIRC £600K went missing, raised as a fund for fighting a second independence referendum. She must have known about it.
The affect on UK politics is likely to be quite big, I think. Surely the SNP vote will shatter between all the other Scottish parties, which means a lot of seats are going to be up for grabs.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 13:00
by clv101
Wow, the stupidity and greed of politicians never ends. Not as if it's even huge sums of money involved. Idiots the lot of them.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 21:26
by PS_RalphW
Sky reports Peter Murrell released without charge
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 22:18
by UndercoverElephant
PS_RalphW wrote: ↑05 Apr 2023, 21:26
Sky reports Peter Murrell released without charge
Innocent until proven guilty, and the police don't have enough evidence to charge. However, given the whole circumstances, including his wife's strange resignation and the forensics tent on the lawn, I will be very surprised if this all just blows overs and we never hear about it again. I reckon they're both guilty, and will eventually be successfully prosecuted.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 22:24
by clv101
It's just weird though, we're talking about a few hundred thousand pounds - not a life changing amount for folk already earning six figures with plenty of legitimate earning potential ahead of them. How could they be so daft as to steal, and expect to get away with, party funds?
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 22:39
by BritDownUnder
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
Looks like Mc-Tammany Hall is setting up shop North of the border.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 05 Apr 2023, 23:14
by UndercoverElephant
clv101 wrote: ↑05 Apr 2023, 22:24
It's just weird though, we're talking about a few hundred thousand pounds - not a life changing amount for folk already earning six figures with plenty of legitimate earning potential ahead of them. How could they be so daft as to steal, and expect to get away with, party funds?
Yes, it is all very strange, and I don't think anybody is pretending to know what is really going on. But it does look to me like something distinctly dodgy has gone on. Why do you need a forensics tent to locate stolen money? Surely they aren't suspected of burying it in their front garden.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 13:03
by adam2
The auditors of the SNP accounts have resigned.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65212357
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 13:44
by UndercoverElephant
There's no way there is this much smoke without there being a fire somewhere.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 15:02
by clv101
This raises some serious questions about the leadership election - had all this come out a few weeks earlier, had she resigned due to this becoming public, would the leadership election had concluded the way it did?
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 15:53
by PS_RalphW
This is pure speculation. I wonder if the money that disappeared was used to pay the membership fees of the missing members, to boost the apparent membership of the party? Then no money has been stolen from the party, it was only false accounting to boost the SNP profile and possibly gain electoral advantage.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 16:26
by UndercoverElephant
clv101 wrote: ↑07 Apr 2023, 15:02
This raises some serious questions about the leadership election - had all this come out a few weeks earlier, had she resigned due to this becoming public, would the leadership election had concluded the way it did?
No. Kate Forbes would have won. The whole things smells rotten.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 17:24
by clv101
Yeah, so was the timing of police action influenced by election? Looks like it, pretty serious if it was.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 07 Apr 2023, 20:02
by UndercoverElephant
clv101 wrote: ↑07 Apr 2023, 17:24
Yeah, so was the timing of police action influenced by election? Looks like it, pretty serious if it was.
You mean they delayed it until Yousaf was safely installed? Might be hard to prove.
Re: Sturgeon's husband arrested over missing money
Posted: 13 Apr 2023, 22:19
by BritDownUnder
'Something on the BBC News today about a 'luxury' motorhome owned by the SNP. I guess an ordinary motorhome was just not acceptable for these people. How is a motorhome judged to be luxurious or not? What criteria?