Peter Murrell admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP.
The purchases include at the higher end tens of thousands of pounds for vehicles including £16,489 for a Volkswagen Golf car, in 2016.
Between September and December 2019, he bought a £81,277 Jaguar I-Pace luxury car, using £57,500 of SNP funds.
Less than two years later he sold it for £47,000 and had the cash paid into his own bank account.
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He paid £124,550 for a Niesmann and Bischoff motorhome, that became synonymous with the investigation, in 2020.
Between August 2010 and January 2023 from his home in Uddingston, the SNP HQ in Edinburgh and other locations he purchased good to the value of £81,610 from Amazon for his own personal use of others.
He used an SNP credit card in the names of Murrell, Susan Riddick and Trudi logan without the knowledge of the other two.
The list of items purchased runs to well over a thousand items and includes men’ shoes, expensive watches, women’s sportswear, beauty products including from Estee Lauder and Molten Brown.
It ranges from the everyday of multipacks of Andrex toilet roll to luxury items and expensive designer bags.
GHD hair straighteners, several Le Creuset kitchen products, including a wine pourer for £12, a men’s slouch pouch onsie, dozens of books and video games were listed on the indictment.
Garden equipment, tools and several Cole & Mason and other brands of salt & pepper mills.
Purchases also included “Sloggi women’s briefs” at £26 for 2.
Over two days , December 6 and 7 2017, Murrell spent around £150 on books.
He purchased two copies of Obama an Intimate Portrait, Killing the Shadows Star Struck, the last temptation, The Grave Tattoo, The Mermaid Singing, The Wire in the Blood, Beneath the Bleeding, a Darker Domain, trick of the Dark, Blude Genes and Booked for Murder.
Even on Christmas Days the spending continued.
In 2015 he bought Netamo wireless Anemometer and wind gauge for £104 and 2x Le Creuset sommelier corkscrews for £31.96.
On Christmas Eve 2016 he bought a Dualit soup kettle for £224.
He bought set of six Jura coffee spoons for £27.60 on June 4 2018. Nine days later he bought six Monsoon teaspoons for £19.20
A leather key cover for £40 is on the list.
He also spent more than £260 on two pencil sharpeners in the one day.
Murrell bought a Caran d’Ache pencil sharpener and matching tin for £157.14 and a pencil sharpener for £110.05.
Murrell also used SNP funds to buy from high street and shopping mall retailers including John Lewis in Buchanan Galleries and shops at Glasgow Fort.
He splashed out more than £500 at the Whisky Exchange in December 2014, £1,595 on a Black Gents Accessories Box and £747.50 on a Red tote bag Poinsettia from Frank Smythson Ltd.
Two weeks later he bought two bags for £1116 and the same month spent more than £2000 on a 18karat gold fountain pen.
He splashed more than £500 on six XXL shirts from John Lewis and More than £1000 for a silver quaich from luxury retailer Hamilton and Inches.
The final purchase on the indictment is £1710 for two international carry on cases from Tumi a subsidiary of Samsonite on June 20 2022.
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