Nicola Sturgeon to continue supporting SNP candidates amid ongoing financial investigation

Nicola Sturgeon will help the SNP's election campaign even though she is being investigated by the police. She will support candidates during the campaign before the vote on July 4. John Swinney, a party member, thinks she is valuable. However, she did not say if she will campaign with him or if she sees herself as an asset to the party. The police searched her home last year and her husband, Peter Murrell, was arrested for taking money from the party. The police are still investigating her and Colin Beattie. She will campaign in ways she thinks will help the candidates. She was the deputy first minister in 2011 when the government promised to improve the A9 road by 2025. Alex Salmond said the project was on track to finish by 2025 when he left office in 2014. He thinks the pandemic caused a delay, but other reasons are not good enough. The police gave a report to the Crown Office about Peter Murrell taking money from the party. The SNP said they won't comment on the investigation. Angus MacNeil wants the Crown Office to say if they will wait until after the election to bring more charges. He wrote to them to help his ex-colleagues and voters. The police are looking into how the SNP used over £600,000 raised in 2017. Last year, the police searched Sturgeon and Murrell's home and arrested Murrell. Beattie was also arrested, and Sturgeon was arrested in June. Murrell was arrested again last month. The police are still investigating Sturgeon and Beattie. The Crown Office said they won't let politics influence their decisions.