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Police submit SNP finances report to prosecutors

Detectives have sent a report to Scotland’s prosecution service in relation to Peter Murrell after the former SNP chief executive was charged with embezzling party funds.

The force said in a statement it had submitted a “standard prosecution report” to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).

Police Scotland added: “Investigations continue and we are unable to comment further.”

Mr Murrell is the husband of Nicola Sturgeon, the former first minister of Scotland.

The Crown Office will now decide if there is enough evidence to charge Mr Murrell with a crime.

It will also decide whether it believes a prosecution would be in the public interest.

Mr Murrell was arrested on 5 April 2023 and subsequently released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.

Almost two weeks later, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested and released pending further investigations. He later stepped down as treasurer.

Ms Sturgeon was arrested on 11 June 2023, with officers questioning her for more than seven hours in a police station before she too was released without charge while further inquiries were carried out.

Investigations into both Mr Beattie and Ms Sturgeon remain ongoing.

Ms Sturgeon denied that her decision to resign as first minister and SNP leader in March of last year was influenced by the police investigation.

Police Scotland’s Operation Branchform has spent more than two years looking into what happened to £660,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists.

On the day of Mr Murrell’s arrest, officers searched the home he shares with Ms Sturgeon in Glasgow.

The SNP’s headquarters in Edinburgh were searched on the same day and a luxury motorhome valued at about £110,000 was also seized by police from outside the home of Mr Murrell’s mother in Dunfermline.

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