{"id":621970,"date":"2026-06-05T04:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621970\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:17:15","slug":"assets-of-peter-murrell-revealed-after-snp-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621970\/","title":{"rendered":"Assets of Peter Murrell revealed after SNP embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n During a narrative hearing this week, his lawyer John Scullion KC suggested Murrell would be able to repay the embezzled sum based on his assets<\/a>, which have been frozen as part of a restraint order from the Crown under the Proceeds of Crime<\/a> Act 2002.\n<\/p>\n

\n That restraint order has been lodged with the Register of Scotland and details of his assets, including the marital home he shares with his estranged wife Nicola Sturgeon<\/a>, are included.\n<\/p>\n

\n Details of the restraint order, first published by The Scotsman<\/a>, show that it is \u201cinterdicting him from dealing\u201d with his assets.\n<\/p>\n

\n The listed assets include the \u00a3124,550 Niesmann+Bischoff motorhome<\/a>, seized from outside his elderly mother\u2019s home in Dunfermline<\/a>, Fife.\n<\/p>\n

\n A second listed asset states there is the \u201csum of \u00a3613,496.04″ as the \u201cgross funds\u201d in two Legal and General pension accounts.\n<\/p>\n

\n Murrell\u2019s \u201cheritable property\u201d is also listed to the value of \u00a388,632 in the joint name of Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon.\n<\/p>\n

\n It comes as The Herald revealed Murrell will still be able to access legal aid<\/a> despite the scale of his frozen assets.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Scottish Legal Aid Board is unable to clawback criminal legal aid, with Murrell granted the taxpayer-funded support last year.\n<\/p>\n

\n During the narrative hearing, senior counsel Mr Scullion said: \u201cThe value of the property in terms of restrained petition suggests there will be repayment of embezzlement in this case.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Former first minister Ms Sturgeon told the BBC\u2019s Laura Kuenssberg she would not \u201ccontribute in some way\u201d<\/a> to the reimbursement.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere will now be, I would imagine, a legal process to recover the money from Peter that he embezzled from the SNP,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat will be a legal process. I am not guilty of that embezzlement so nothing that belongs to me should be part of that, rightly. But will that process impact on me? Of course it will.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n It comes as the SNP lodges legal action against Murrell<\/a> in an attempt to recoup the funds.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Swinney confirmed to journalists on Thursday that some SNP members had requested a refund after initially donating to the party\u2019s independence fund.\n<\/p>\n

\n Police Scotland will also not investigate new complaints into the SNP\u2019s accounts after independence activist Sean Clerkin reported the First Minister<\/a> yesterday.\n<\/p>\n

\n His complaint centred around Mr Swinney\u2019s confession that more than \u00a3600,000 raised for independence campaigning between 2017 and 2019 had been spent on \u201cgeneral party campaigning\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n But Police Scotland confirmed there will be no new probe, similar to Operation Branchform<\/a>, the investigation into how SNP finances earmarked for independence campaigning, were spent.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat money is part of the resources that are available within the Scottish National Party to support its independence objectives and the SNP is a party of independence and that\u2019s what we campaign for,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe just campaigned for independence at the Scottish Parliament elections.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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