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John Swinney has voiced "absolute confidence" in Dorothy Bain, after Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay suggested the Lord Advocate's memo to the First Minister regarding criminal charges against former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell "smacks of corruption." The controversy centres on Bain's January email detailing Murrell's alleged embezzlement of nearly £460,000, weeks before it became public, which critics claim risked breaching her neutrality and advantaging the SNP politically. Bain and Swinney defended the communication as necessary to prevent ministers from commenting on live proceedings, with senior legal figures describing the accusations as baseless and "shameful." Swinney insisted he had "absolute confidence" in Bain, who he described as an "outstanding" lawyer of "unimpeachable service".
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