{"id":30815,"date":"2026-05-25T07:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=30815"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:38:36","slug":"murrell-in-court-to-face-embezzlement-charges-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=30815","title":{"rendered":"Murrell in court to face embezzlement charges \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\/02\/Peter-Murrell-BBC-vid.png\" alt=\"Peter Murrell\" class=\"wp-image-189638 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Murrell-BBC-vid.png\" alt=\"Peter Murrell\" class=\"wp-image-189638 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Murrell-BBC-vid.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Murrell-BBC-vid-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Murrell-BBC-vid-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Murrell-BBC-vid-600x398.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Peter Murrell: due in court<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Former SNP chief executive\u00a0Peter Murrell\u00a0will appear at the High Court in Edinburgh today to face charges of embezzling party funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Murrell is accused of obtaining more than \u00a3459,000 between August 2010 and January 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He will attend court for a preliminary hearing which had been scheduled to take place in Glasgow in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The 61-year-old, who is\u00a0former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon\u2019s estranged husband, is alleged to have used the money to buy items including a motorhome and a series of luxury goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He was arrested in April 2023 as part of the Operation Branchform police investigation into the SNP\u2019s finances, and was charged in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He appeared at\u00a0Edinburgh Sheriff Court\u00a0in March 2025 where he faced a charge of embezzlement, making no plea.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) 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>#Murrell #court #face #embezzlement #charges #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Murrell: due in court Fo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,5175,504,265,17882,752,12980,9629,17883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815"}],"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=30815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}