LONDON - Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and held for more than seven hours on Sunday (June 11) after voluntarily attending an interview over a police probe into the fate of funds for her pro-independence Scottish National Party. The police investigation is looking at what happened to more than 600,000 pounds (S$1 million) in funding which was...
LONDON - Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and held for more than seven hours on Sunday after voluntarily attending an interview over a police probe into the fate of funds for her pro-independence Scottish National Party.
"Nicola Sturgeon has today, Sunday 11th June, by arrangement with Police Scotland, attended an interview where she was to be arrested and questioned," a spokesperson for Sturgeon said. "A 52-year-old woman who was arrested earlier today ... has been released without charge pending further investigation," Police Scotland said. "As the investigation is ongoing, we are unable to comment further."
At the time of Murrell's arrest, police carried out a lengthy search of the couple's home in Glasgow, which was sealed off with blue and white police tape.Sturgeon, the longest serving leader of Scotland's semi-autonomous government, caught the political world by surprise when she announced her resignation in February, saying she had become too divisive to lead her country to independence.
Opposition parties have accused the SNP of being mired in scandal and too focused on independence to govern Scotland properly. Sturgeon's successor Humza Yousaf has described the police investigation as challenging but has defended the SNP's record and accused the Westminster government of interfering in the governing of Scotland and making devolution unworkable.
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