FORMER SNP MP George Kerevan has called on the Scottish Government to launch an investigation into Donald Trump’s Scottish assets using legislation that came into force at the beginning of this year.
In a post on the Bella Caledonia website, he said Holyrood should pursue at the Court of Session an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO), under which it can call on someone reasonably suspected of involvement in or connected to someone involved in serious crime.
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“The legislation is clear that a UWO can be applied against politicians from outside the UK or European Economic Area, or against their family and associates,” said Kerevan.
“That would include not just The Donald, but his son Eric, who runs Trump’s two golf courses in Scotland.
“Or Trump associates such as Erik Prince, former boss of the Blackwater mercenary corps, who is under investigation in America as a key player in the president’s alleged links to Russian money.”
Kerevan points out that Trump has two golf courses in Scotland – Turnberry and Aberdeen – and bought Turnberry in 2014 with cash, which is unusual in the golf business.
Between 2006 and 2014, he also bought at least 12 other properties in cash, which Kerevan said was a remarkable change of tack for the self-proclaimed “king of debt”.
Kerevan said the US are investigating Trump’s links to Russian money after his son, Donald Jr, boasted to a real estate conference in 2008: “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
Kerevan added: “Paralleling separate investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller the US Senate has already taken testimony regarding Trump’s two Scottish golf resorts. If that’s not grounds for ScotGov asking some questions
of its own via a UWO, I don’t know what is.”
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