{"id":35181,"date":"2023-04-18T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/04\/18\/fm-humza-yousaf-responds-to-snp-treasurer-colin-beattie-arrest\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:02:15","slug":"fm-humza-yousaf-responds-to-snp-treasurer-colin-beattie-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=35181","title":{"rendered":"FM Humza Yousaf responds to SNP treasurer Colin Beattie arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Humza Yousaf has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-65309791\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">said it is \u201cclearly a very serious matter indeed\u201d that SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested by police investigating the party&#8217;s finances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">When asked if the SNP MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh would be suspended from the party, the first minister said people were \u201cinnocent until proven guilty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Beattie has been taken into custody and is being questioned by Police Scotland detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A spokesman for the force said the arrest was made in connection with the continuing investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It comes two weeks after former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell &#8211; Nicola Sturgeon&#8217;s husband &#8211; was also arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-65315625?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Humza Yousaf has said it is \u201cclearly a very serious matter indeed\u201d that SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested by police investigating the party&#8217;s finances. When asked if &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}