BACKGROUND

A SUNDAY POST investigation team first revealed the true extent of the alleged financial mismanagement at the heart of Scotia Aid in August last year.

Our extensive probe detailed how the charity raised more than £1 million in 2014, but handed over just £137,000 to good causes, the equivalent of 13p in every £1 raised.

Two months later we revealed Scotia Aid was being investigated by a number of councils across the UK amid claims of a cash raising scam.

One of those, Broxtowe Borough Council in Nottinghamshire, raised civil court proceedings against the charity to recover £369,000.

In April this year it emerged OSCR had finally instructed Sheriff Officers to quiz former trustees of the organisation.

The Sunday Post has been praised by Labour MSP Michael McMahon, whose constituency takes in Scotia Aid’s base in Uddingston.

“The Sunday Post is to be congratulated,” he said.