{"id":13942,"date":"2026-01-20T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:28:33","slug":"court-hearing-for-ex-snp-ceo-set-for-february-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13942","title":{"rendered":"Court hearing for ex-SNP CEO set for February \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Murrell-headshot.png\" alt=\"Peter Murrell\" class=\"wp-image-188626 lazyload\" style=\"width:829px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Murrell-headshot.png\" alt=\"Peter Murrell\" class=\"wp-image-188626 lazyload\" style=\"width:829px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Murrell-headshot.png 778w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Murrell-headshot-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Murrell-headshot-768x529.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Murrell-headshot-600x413.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Peter Murrell: charges<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Peter Murrell, the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon will appear in court next month, three years after he was arrested during enquiries into the alleged mis-use of party funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The former chief executive of the SNP has since been accused of embezzling money from the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His appearance in the High Court in Glasgow on 20 February for a preliminary hearing come just weeks before the 7 May Scottish elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Murrell, 61, made his first court appearance in March last year. He made no plea and was granted bail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It followed a police search in April 2023 of the home he shared with Ms Sturgeon just weeks after she formally stood down as First Minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She was also arrested as part of the\u00a0Operation Branchform investigation\u00a0into the SNP but last March Police Scotland said that she would not be charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Colin Beattie, the former SNP treasurer who remains an MSP, was also arrested as part of the investigation but was also told he would face no charges. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Court #hearing #exSNP #CEO #set #February #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Murrell: charges Peter M&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,529,504,265,9630,7622,8997,9629,997],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}