{"id":7113,"date":"2026-05-25T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:59:05","slug":"murrell-in-court-to-face-embezzlement-charges-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7113","title":{"rendered":"Murrell in court to face embezzlement charges \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Peter Murrell: due in court<\/p>\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>           \t            #Murrell #court #face #embezzlement #charges #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Murrell: due in court Former SNP chief executive\u00a0Peter Murrell\u00a0will appear at the High Court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,5516,1962,306,12963,3182,12966,12964,12965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}