The husband of Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the finances of their Scottish National Party (SNP), UK media reported.
In a statement on Wednesday, Police Scotland said they had taken a 58-year-old man into custody for questioning over the party’s “funding and finances”. The Guardian and the BBC reported that the man was Peter Murrell, the husband of the former Scotland leader, Sturgeon.
The police investigation is looking at what happened to more than 600,000 pounds ($748,920) raised by Scottish independence campaigners in 2017, which was supposed to have been ring-fenced for spending on that issue but was missing from the party’s filed accounts.
Police Scotland said they were carrying out searches at a number of addresses as part of the investigation.
“The man is in custody and is being questioned by Police Scotland detectives,” the force added.
Police were seen outside the Glasgow home of Murrell and Sturgeon, and at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh.
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