Peter Murrell (Mr Nicola Sturgeon) arrested

Archibald Knox said:
Sturgeon is bound to be arrested and interviewed under caution soon. She was one of the three approved signatories for SNP finances... along with Murrell and Beattie. But the cops will want to get this perfect in terms of procedure, no embarrassment over improper arrest etc, which is why it stretches out.

This is the way the police work on potential complex fraud cases... they start interviewing the small fry on the outside edges as purely witnesses, in order to build the case and finally move on the big fish at the centre treating them as suspects.

The SNP Gang of Three will be wriggling under questioning trying desperately to remember all their twists and turns and reasons for spending the cash. While the police will have already accumulated a fair mountain of evidence. I wonder who the chief grass will be? One of them may try it.
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Big mammy can never remember anything.
 
Any pics of the interior of the van in question? I presume if it was intended as a battlebus for political campaigning it would have basic fittings not anything luxurious...?
 
Trammo said:
Any pics of the interior of the van in question? I presume if it was intended as a battlebus for political campaigning it would have basic fittings not anything luxurious...?
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Even the basic fittings are luxurious!
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Beattie’s arrest sheds new light on the resignation of the previous Treasurer saying that he did not have the information to do his job, last autumn. Beattie was beaten in an election, then took over again after the resignation. This really isn’t looking good for the SNP.
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BBC reporting today Beattie says when he was treasurer he did not sign off the motorhome as he knew nothing about it's existence. Curiouser and curiouser...
 
Trammo said:
BBC reporting today Beattie says when he was treasurer he did not sign off the motorhome as he knew nothing about it's existence. Curiouser and curiouser...
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Strange that as treasurer he didn’t know anything about it, where did the money come from and who signed it off.
 
Trammo said:
BBC reporting today Beattie says when he was treasurer he did not sign off the motorhome as he knew nothing about it's existence. Curiouser and curiouser...
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Mr Beattie wasn't treasurer at the time, so he wouldn't have signed it off, Mr Douglas Chapman was the treasurer at the time, he quit in May 2021, saying "he had not received the support or financial information that was needed to carry out his duties as treasurer".

The fact that he didn't know about it is however extremely suspicious.
 
I wonder what is going to take for all those who thought NS was so good to accept she's pretty much like every other politician in power?

The SNP apparent behaviour whilst going on about Tory corruption is simple hypocrisy.

Tick tock
 
TSSeasider said:
I wonder what is going to take for all those who thought NS was so good to accept she's pretty much like every other politician in power?

The SNP apparent behaviour whilst going on about Tory corruption is simple hypocrisy.

Tick tock
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I thought she was a very good communicator, on top of her brief and down to earth with quite a clear agenda that she pursued.
Results wise - I think its fair to say Scotland hasn't done so well in many areas under the SNP. However, I would welcome some of their policies here, free university education for instance (this seems to have been achieved at the expense of other types of post 16 education in Scotland which is not good). The default SNP position in the past was to blame Westminster for all of Scotland's failings, but they do not really have that crutch anymore.

There are certainly some questions to be answered about how the party she was in operated under her leadership, this being an obvious example (there are others as well). People who tried to stop this were, it seems, removed from the picture by Sturgeon's gang. I am not really sure how they thought they could get away with this - the arrogance of a one party state without an effective opposition. There is a parallel with the current Conservatives there.
 
Update courtesy of Private Eye.

The McRozzers have identified where £267k of the "indyref2" money ended up. £400k still to be traced.

They've now extended their enquiries to include the whereabouts of some of the bequests, gifts and cash the SNP has received since 2020, totalling more than £5m.
On a lesser scale, they're checking out more than 1,000 purchases made via an Amazon account.

There's also a 2021 photo of then SNP president Mike Russell standing next to a horse box converted by volunteers into a "campaign bus" - taken over six months after that £110k motorhome campaign bus (which Russell had not been told about) was delivered to the home of Peter Murrell's mother.

The way this is shaping up, it's going to make a compelling TV documentary....
 
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To say I'm not a fan of the SNP or Mr & Mrs Sturgeon would be a huge understatement but given how much bent money the Tories got out of Covid procurement, I couldn't give a flying feck if the SNP might have misappropriated 600 large or so.
 
SEASIDE2020 said:
To say I'm not a fan of the SNP or Mr & Mrs Sturgeon would be a huge understatement but given how much bent money the Tories got out of Covid procurement, I couldn't give a flying feck if the SNP might have misappropriated 600 large or so.
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Exactly. Perspective
 
Two wrongs don't make a right and it's classic "whatabouterry" which has been ridiculed relentlessly.

I think the NS/SNP supporters who lauded her/them as a bastion against corruption and an example of good governance are going to struggle to accept that there's a case for fraud and more importantly hypocrisy.

Time and again she pointed about Boris/Westminster corruption whilst overseeing the apparent emptying of the till of her own party - and shutting down anyone who questioned it.

It appears at the same time as presiding of a general decline in the education, health and quality of life of millions of Scots who deserve better.
 
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TSSeasider said:
Two wrongs don't make a right and it's classic "whatabouterry" which has been ridiculed relentlessly.

I think the NS/SNP supporters who lauded her/them as a bastion against corruption and an example of good governance are going to struggle to accept that there's a case for fraud and more importantly hypocrisy.

Time and again she pointed about Boris/Westminster corruption whilst overseeing the apparent emptying of the til of hey own party - and shutting down anyone who questioned it.

It appears at the same time a presiding of a general decline in the education, health and quality of life of millions of Scots who deserve better.
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All as bad as each other at present; don’t believe a word ANY politician says; voted independent at recent local elections because I think it is important to vote but I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for any of the main parties.

What a sad state of affairs!
 
It takes a long time to work out if a crime has been committed.

Still, the SNP will say the timing is politically motivated.

And of course, he's still not been found guilty.
 
The Scottish police have confirmed this evening that Peter Murrell, Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, has been charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party. He has been released on bail.
www.telegraph.co.uk

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband charged in connection with embezzlement of SNP funds

Peter Murrell, party’s former chief executive, was taken into custody at 9.13am on Thursday and charged over nine hours later
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
 
Archibald Knox said:
The Scottish police have confirmed this evening that Peter Murrell, Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, has been charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party. He has been released on bail.
www.telegraph.co.uk

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband charged in connection with embezzlement of SNP funds

Peter Murrell, party’s former chief executive, was taken into custody at 9.13am on Thursday and charged over nine hours later
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
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I hope the nationalists are wiped out at the GE.
 
bfcpete said:
I wonder if Nicola benefitted from the proceeds of crime?
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Was this trip part of her punishment?

I presume that's her in the middle...

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TSSeasider said:
I'm a bit torn in some ways as she can't be blamed for his behaviour.

But I do wonder, given her role in the party how she wouldn't know from one of her domestic or professional perspective.

Still, a little way to go and we've seen lots of potential wrong doing being found innocent.
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A 90kgbp camper van appeared, was she not wondering where the money had come from.
Very good day for labour without them lifting a finger.
 
tangysider said:
A 90kgbp camper van appeared, was she not wondering where the money had come from.
Very good day for labour without them lifting a finger.
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It was parked up outside his mother's house, so I guess it's just possible that she never saw it, and maybe the SNP's internal controls were so lax £90,000 could be spent without her knowing about it, and if you believe that I have some magic beans you might be interested in.
 
tangysider said:
A 90kgbp camper van appeared, was she not wondering where the money had come from.
Very good day for labour without them lifting a finger.
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It will be interesting as to who was listed with the DVLA as the registered owner of the camper van. But I assume that it could have formally been the SNP as an organisation. I am sure the police will be trying to establish links between its purchase and the £107,620 ‘emergency loan’ that Murrell made to the SNP subsequent to the hoo-ha about where’s all the money gone.
 
Archibald Knox said:
It will be interesting as to who was listed with the DVLA as the registered owner of the camper van. But I assume that it could have formally been the SNP as an organisation.
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Probably.

I think someone on here described it as "theft by forgetting", the idea being that the van was purchased for ostensibly legitimate purposes, and sits in the fixed asset register until it's been written down to a negligible value, at which point it gets "scrapped" and Murrell transfers ownership, the point being that even a 5-year-old example of one of these is still worth most of the original cost.

Quite how that got past the auditors I don't know.
 
Lost Seasider said:
I think someone on here described it as "theft by forgetting", the idea being that the van was purchased for ostensibly legitimate purposes, and sits in the fixed asset register until it's been written down to a negligible value, at which point it gets "scrapped" and Murrell transfers ownership, the point being that even a 5-year-old example of one of these is still worth most of the original cost.
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A plausible scenario. Good judgement... 😉
 
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