Thread by @DeanMThomson

Listing a handful of some police investigations where the SNP’s name has come up.

These are either ongoing police investigations of the SNP as an organisation or elected SNP office holders. Or third parties with well documented relationships with the SNP.
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1️⃣ Serious Fraud Office investigating billionaire Sanjeev Gupta

This chap sponsored a “lavish” SNP conference dinner attended by SNP cabinet ministers including the first minister.

He also secured a £500m guarantee from the Scottish Government.
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Former SNP minister Ferguson Ewing also attended an unminuted meeting with Gupta in the past too.

So the chap under investigation by fraud squad sponsored an SNP dinner, after ministers had given a huge guarantee to the company.
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2️⃣ Financial crimes unit investigating Sandstone Press of Inverness

Police are investigating if the book publisher benefited improperly from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) awarded grants and loans.
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The publisher is owned by Robert Davidson, described as an “ardent nationalist”. He also published Nicola Sturgeons book ‘Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon.’
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So the bloke who published a book on Sturgeons speeches is being investigated by fraud squad over concerns he may have benefited from rules being broken when Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) awarded his firm grants and loans.
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The Scottish government was made aware of concerns about how this public money was being spent. But it isn’t clear that they took any action at all, as the May election was imminent.
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3️⃣ Police investigate SNP over ‘missing’ independence campaign funds 

Police Scotland investigating the SNP itself. There are seven complaints alleging that money solicited for one purpose (indyref2) was spent elsewhere on other matters.
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The SNP had claimed the ‘missing’ indyref2 money had been ‘ring fenced’, but have since admitted the money wasn’t ring fenced after all.
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Also, SNP national treasurer has also claimed they don’t provide itemised breakdowns of ‘ring fenced’ monies in accounts…despite fact they used to.
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4️⃣ Police probe an SNP councillor

SNP Cllr Rhiannon Spear is the SNP national women’s convener.

She is also chair of Glasgow city council education committee.
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She is also a staunch advocate for many of the SNPs more woke policies including their Hate Crime law which excludes women under protected characteristics & also proposed GRA reform.

But in May she made her “we hate the UK” tweet. This resulted in a police probe.
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Sources:
▪️ Daily Record: ‘Business giant probed by fraud squad sponsored swanky SNP conference dinner’
dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…
▪️Daily Record: ‘Nicola Sturgeon's book publisher probed by fraud cops over award of £295k taxpayers' cash’
dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…
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▪️Daily Telegraph: ‘Police investigate SNP over ‘missing’ independence campaign funds’
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
▪️Daily Record: ‘Police probing 'Scotland hates the UK too' tweet from Glasgow SNP councillor’
dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…
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