Peter Murrell blocked by Lord Advocate from selling home after SNP police probe charges

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell has been banned by the country’s top law officer from selling any property he owns. A public register shows the curb was put in place by the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, head of the Scottish justice system, weeks after the former SNP chief executive was charged in connection with embezzlement.Operation Branchform is the police probe into how over £600,000 of indyref2 donations raised by the SNP were spent.

Murrell was SNP CEO at the time of the donations and his wife was party leader and First Minister. Sturgeon announced their separation last week.Sturgeon, Murrell and ex-SNP Treasurer Colin Beattie were arrested as part of the probe, but were released without charge.

Murrell was then charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds in April last year and the case is ongoing.According to a search of Registers of Scotland – part of the Scottish Government – Murrell had an “inhibition” slapped on him in June 2024.

An inhibition is when an individual or company is prevented from selling property or from taking out loans on it.The Register of Inhibitions (RoI), which is where the Record found the information, notifies the public about individuals who cannot “competently enter into voluntary property transactions.” The extract lists Murrell as living at the marital home in Uddingston he and Sturgeon co-own.Sturgeon last week revealed in an Instagram post that she and Murrell had separated.