A LEGAL claim of fraudulent breach of trust, being brought against the SNP because of how £600,000 raised to fight a second independence referendum was spent, is “close to irresistible” and could see the party ordered to repay double the donations given to them, according to the opinion of one of Scotland’s foremost lawyers.
Roddy Dunlop KC, the dean of the Faculty of Advocates, also said that “all elements of the crimes of embezzlement under Scots common law are made out” – assuming the alleged facts of the case are proven in court.
