Thomson resigned from SNP over inquiry into deals made by her then solicitor Christopher Hales,who was subject of a suspicious activity report four years agoThe solicitor whose investigation by Police Scotland prompted the Scottish National party MP Michelle Thomson to resign from the party final week was first reported to the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) four years ago, it has emerged.
Opposition parties called for further clarification of the sequence of events regarding who knew of the allegations and when, and after the Law Society of Scotland confirmed on Friday that it had submitted a report on Thomson’s solicitor Christopher Hales,who was struck off for possible mortgage fraud in 2014, to Soca – now the National Crime Agency – in 2011.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com