Scottish National Party (SNP) treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested in connection with a police investigation into the party’s finances.
Police Scotland said the 71-year-old was taken into custody on Tuesday and is being questioned by detectives “as a suspect in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party.”
Beattie became the SNP’s national treasurer in 2004, but lost the position to MP Douglas Chapman in 2020.
Beattie reclaimed the post in 2021 after the resignation of Chapman, who claimed he was not being given the required information to carry out the job.
This is the second arrest in the investigation into how more than £600,000 in donations to Scotland’s ruling party earmarked for an independence referendum had been used….