The trial of a former SNP MP accused of embezzling greater than £25,000 from two pro-independence teams will begin subsequent month.
Ex-MP Natalie McGarry didn't seem at a brief listening to at Glasgow Sheriff Court docket on Friday the place Sheriff Tom Hughes mentioned her trial would start on April 4.
The 40-year-old has beforehand entered not responsible pleas to the costs she faces.
McGarry is accused of misappropriating £21,000 for her personal use in her position as treasurer of the Ladies for Independence group between April 26 2013 and November 30 2015.
She is accused of failing to switch charitable donations raised by the group to Perth and Kinross Foodbank and to Optimistic Prisons, Optimistic Futures.
It's alleged she transferred funds raised by means of occasions on behalf of Ladies for Independence into her personal private checking account and used cheques drawn on the organisation’s checking account to deposit cash in her personal accounts.
McGarry can be accused of embezzling £4,661.02 for her personal use from the Glasgow Regional Affiliation of the SNP between April 9 2014 and August 10 2015.
It's alleged that in her roles as treasurer, secretary and convener of the affiliation, she used cheques drawn on financial institution accounts held in its title to pay bills it had not incurred and retained reimbursements to which she was not entitled.
The indictment additionally alleges she used cheques drawn on financial institution accounts held within the affiliation’s title to deposit cash in her personal private financial institution accounts and transferred funds donated to the affiliation by means of its web site into her personal accounts.
McGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015 however resigned the social gathering whip after the emergence of fraud allegations – which she denied.
She continued in Parliament as an unbiased MP representing Glasgow East however didn't search re-election in 2017.
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