Two whistleblowers said they were intimidated when trying to raise concerns about the SNP's finances during the period former chief executive Peter Murrell was stealing from the party.
Allison Graham and Cynthia Guthrie quit the party's finance and audit committee alongside Frank Ross after just six weeks in 2021, saying they had been blocked from carrying out their jobs.
In a joint resignation statement with Frank Ross, they said Murrell "obviously procrastinated" over giving them information and there was a "clear intention" to prevent financial auditing.
Murrell admitted embezzling more than 400,000 from the SNP over 12 years and was jailed for five years and three months earlier this week.
The 61-year-old – who is the estranged husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - used the funds to buy goods ranging from cars and a motorhome to kitchenware and toiletries.
Guthrie said that in 2021 she and her fellow committee members told Sturgeon they had noticed "problems with the accounts". She added: "She [Sturgeon] failed to follow it through."
Sturgeon was SNP party leader between 2014 and 2023 and in that role shared responsibility for monitoring the party's accounts.
However, she has consistently denied any knowledge of Murrell's wrongdoing, committed between 2010 and 2022.
The former first minister was interviewed by police officers working on the Operation Branchform investigation but was not charged.
After becoming a member of the audit committee, Guthrie said...
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