Extraordinary Embezzlement Case Rocks Scottish Politics

New York Times: “The list of items bought with cash embezzled from Scotland’s governing political party ranges from the banal to the ostentatious. But the theft in total of more than 400,000 pounds, or over $500,000, from the Scottish National Party over 12 years has created the biggest scandal to hit the country’s politics in decades.”

“That is because the perpetrator, Peter Murrell, was not just the party’s chief executive but was the husband of Nicola Sturgeon, the party’s former leader and an ex-Scottish first minister, once seen as one of Britain’s most formidable political figures. They are now estranged.”