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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Impossible to predict how long SNP finances investigation will take, says police chief

Chief constable Iain Livingstone.
‘Investigations around fraud or potential embezzlement or the misuse of funds take time,’ says chief constable Iain Livingstone. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

It is impossible to predict when the police investigation into the finances of the Scottish National party will end, the outgoing chief constable of Police Scotland has said.

Speaking to BBC Scotland, Sir Iain Livingstone said the investigation, which has resulted in the arrests of the party’s former chief executive Peter Murrell, his wife and former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, and the former SNP treasurer Colin Beattie, was “in the interest of everybody involved”.

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