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Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNicola Sturgeon says she knows “nothing more” about the police investigation into SNP finances.<\/p>\n The former first minister, who was arrested and released without charge last year, said she wished the inquiry “wasn’t there” but that she had no “control” over it. <\/p>\n She has vowed to co-operate fully with the authorities, and insisted she has done nothing wrong. <\/p>\n Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, Sturgeon’s husband, was charged with embezzling party funds in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Asked about the police investigation, codenamed Operation Branchform, the former SNP leader told BBC Scotland News: “It’s not something I have any control over and I don’t think it would be surprising to anybody to hear me say of course I wish it wasn’t there – but it is what it is and it will take its own course.<\/p>\n “In the meantime I’m getting on with my life, I’m enjoying getting on with my life and there’s no point in me talking about things I can’t comment on anyway.”<\/p>\n Operation Branchform has spent more than two years looking into what happened to \u00a3660,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists.<\/p>\n In September it emerged that officers had sent prosecutors details of what they had uncovered in an “advice and guidance report” and are seeking formal advice on what they should do next.<\/p>\n The update was understood to be about Sturgeon and ex-SNP treasurer Colin Beattie, who have both remained under investigation after being arrested and released without charge last year.<\/p>\n The Crown Office said at the time the police report was under consideration.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Police Scotland said the force was awaiting direction from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service “on what further action should be taken”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nOperation Branchform <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n