ALEX Salmond has insisted that the name of a complainer was revealed to one of his aides ahead of a key meeting in 2018.
Yesterday in Parliament, the First Minister denied that that had happened.
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Salmond claims that at a meeting just days before he met with Sturgeon in her home on April 2, the identity of one of the female civil servants accusing him of haramssment was shared with Geoff Aberdein, his former Chief of Staff.
That name was then passed on to him.
Responding to questions from Labour’s Jackie Baillie in Parliament yesterday’s, Nicola Sturgeon rejected the accusation.
She said:”Alex Salmond claimed that the name of a complainant was given. That is not the same thing as accepting that that is the case.”
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She later added: “To the very best of my knowledge, I do not think that that happened.”
Asked about it during the evidence session at today's meeting of Holyrood's harassment inquiry, Salmond told Baillie it was true.
He added: “As far as I'm aware, and you'd have to ask the people concerned, but as far as I'm aware there are three other people who know that to be true."
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