{"id":1069865,"date":"2026-07-05T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1069865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:26:25","slug":"police-make-inquiries-over-yes-scotland-campaign-missing-money-complaint-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1069865\/","title":{"rendered":"Police make inquiries over Yes Scotland campaign \u2018missing money\u2019 complaint \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are making inquiries after a complaint was made about the finances of Yes Scotland, the group which campaigned for a Yes vote in the 2014 independence referendum.<\/p>\n

It comes after claims that income of just over \u00a31.5 million is unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Mail newspaper reported that the complaint was made by David Henry, who was one of those whose complaints about the SNP\u2019s finances led to the separate Operation Branchform investigation.<\/p>\n

Yes Scotland Ltd, a company which was set up by Alex Salmond to campaign for independence ahead of the referendum, has not been active since 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Edward<\/a>\"Taylor<\/a>\"AlexAlex Salmond set up the organisation in 2012 (Danny Lawson\/PA) <\/p>\n

The SNP have said that Yes Scotland Ltd is an \u201centirely separate organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Henry told the newspaper that the company\u2019s accounts from 2016 onwards showed a zero balance and \u00a31.5 million which was recorded earlier appears to have \u201cjust gone\u201d.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Police\u00a0Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cWe have received a complaint and inquiries are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell was jailed for more than five years after admitting to embezzling more than \u00a3400,000 from the party over five years.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland and the Crown Office investigated Murrell\u2019s actions in Operation Branchform.<\/p>\n

Scottish Labour\u2019s deputy leader Dame Jackie Baillie said: \u201cThese are incredibly serious allegations and it is right that they are considered by the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still far too many unanswered questions surrounding Peter Murrell\u2019s fraudulent activities and the secrecy of the SNP.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Swinney and the SNP need to stop running scared and come clean about these allegations and back a full financial audit of the accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

An SNP spokesperson said: \u201cThe criminal actions of Peter Murrell were uncovered by a complex and extensive police investigation which found the SNP was the victim of embezzlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes Scotland told the Sunday Mail that all the money is accounted for and there has been no wrongdoing, adding that Murrell had no access to its bank accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are making inquiries after a complaint was made about the finances of Yes Scotland, the group which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1069866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5009],"tags":[136828,120574,748,293367,293368,4884,273344,285,712,10004,16,15,293369],"class_list":["post-1069865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scotland","tag-2014-independence-referendum","tag-alex-salmond","tag-britain","tag-david-henry","tag-financial-investigation","tag-great-britain","tag-peter-murrell","tag-politics","tag-scotland","tag-snp","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-yes-scotland-ltd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116867131829351670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}