Prosecutors who are investigating the SNP’s finances are understood to be looking at evidence a fake company received payments from the party. According to receipts over £100,000 was spent on a new media suite in the SNP’s Edinburgh offices. However investigators say they are looking at information which suggests the company which received these payments never existed.
On top of this a major high street bank flagged suspicious transactions on accounts connected with the SNP last year. Two anonymous sources disclosed this information to The Sunday Mail . The first source said: “A bank flagged up large transactions on SNP related accounts to the police in 2023 which they wanted to query.
“The bank was acting in line with its legal duty. “Often these things turn out to be perfectly innocent, someone is buying a house for example, but there is a process that has to be gone through. Love politics? Then sign up for The Steamie daily newsletter “Contacting the police was a precursor to contacting the account holders to ask them to explain the transactions.
“However the police made it clear they were aware and no further action would be required from the bank.” The second source also told the newspaper: “One of the biggest items being looked at is a six-figure sum which on paper appears to have been spent creating a media suite at the Edinburgh offices. “There are receipts but it is unclear whether the company named on the receipts really existed.
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