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It comes more than a year after Mr Murrell was first arrested and released without charge, which saw the couples home searched by police and a blue forensics tent erected outside the property.

The arrest comes as part of a probe into money that had been raised by the SNP since 2017 for a second independence referendum campaign

Nicola Sturgeon's 59-year-old husband Peter Murrell has been charged in connection with embezzlement of SNP funds after a police investigation into the party's finances

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The investigation has been named Operation Branchform.

Respected organiser professionalised and modernised the SNP in more than two decades as chief executive. He has now been charged with embezzlement

Former party chief executive and husband of Nicola Sturgeon taken into custody for further questioning

The former SNP chief executive was questioned by detectives after being taken into Police Scotland custody on Thursday. He has since been released from custody.

The husband of ex-first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been re-arrested in connection with Police Scotland's investigation into the party's finances.

Peter Murrell, the partys former chief executive, was first arrested in April last year and was released without charge.