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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lucinda Cameron

Scottish Labour calls for Lord Advocate ministerial code investigation

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has a dual role (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

Scottish Labour has called for an investigation into whether the Lord Advocate breached the ministerial code over the sharing of information relating to the prosecution of Peter Murrell.

It emerged last week that Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC had informed First Minister John Swinney on January 19 that Peter Murrell – the former SNP chief executive – had been charged with embezzling almost £460,000 from the party.

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