Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sentencing for embezzling £400,000
Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell used party charge card and created fake invoices to buy hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of items, including a £100,000 motorhome and a £3,000 robotic lawnmower with party donations, a court heard.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard he embezzled £400,310.65 from the SNP’s principal bank account, “over which he had control”.
He is being sentenced at Edinburgh High Court on Tuesday.
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