A former MP with the Scottish National Party has been jailed for two years for embezzling £25,000 ($30,350) from the SNP and the Women For Independence (WFI) pressure group.
Natalie McGarry, 40, was convicted of embezzlement last month following a retrial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
In the May 2015 general election she unseated the Labour MP for Glasgow East, Margaret Curran, with a 30 percent swing in what was a landslide victory for the SNP across Scotland.
But a few months later discrepancies were discovered within the WFI accounts and it later emerged that McGarry, who was the group’s treasurer, had set up a Scottish independence crowdfunder so that money from the PayPal account went straight into McGarry’s personal bank account….