{"id":675114,"date":"2026-07-05T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675114\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:10:08","slug":"police-probe-yes-scotland-campaigns-missing-1-5m-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675114\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe Yes Scotland campaign&#8217;s &#8216;missing \u00a31.5m&#8217; claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are making inquiries after a complaint was made about the finances of Yes Scotland, the group which campaigned for independence in the 2014 referendum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/politics\/cops-probe-claims-missing-15m-37388389\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Mail, external<\/a> has reported on claims that income of more than \u00a31.5m was unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The newspaper said the complaint was made by David Henry, who was one of those whose concerns about the SNP&#8217;s finances led to the Operation Branchform investigation and the eventual conviction of former chief executive Peter Murrell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yes Scotland Ltd, a company which was set up by former SNP leader and First Minister Alex Salmond to campaign for independence ahead of the referendum, has not been active since 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its latest set of dormant accounts were published last year, showing a zero balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SNP has said Yes Scotland Ltd was an &#8220;entirely separate organisation&#8221; from the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry told the Sunday Mail that the campaign company&#8217;s accounts from 2016 onward showed a zero balance and \u00a31.5m which was recorded earlier appeared to have &#8220;just gone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Police Scotland spokesperson said: &#8220;We have received a complaint and inquiries are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are making inquiries after a complaint was made about the finances of Yes Scotland, the group which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}