SNP signs contract with new auditors more than six months after previous firm quit
Humza Yousaf says he only learned the party had no auditors after he won the SNP leadershipThe SNP has signed a contract with a new auditor more than six months after the previous firm quit, the BBC can reveal.The SNP's Westminster group risks losing £1.2m of public funding if it does not submit audited accounts by 31 May.It only emerged last month that the SNP's previous auditors, Johnston Carmichael, had quit in September of last year.
The source added: "They have managed to turn things around in a matter of weeks and both the party and the Westminster group now have auditors in place." He also said the SNP was likely to lose £1.2m of Short Money if it was not able to file its accounts by that date. It comes amid an ongoing police investigation into the party's finances that saw Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell - who was until recently the SNP's chief executive - and former treasurer Colin Beattie being arrested last month.Detectives also spent two days searching Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell's home in Glasgow, and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh as part of the inquiry.
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