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Ministers deleting WhatsApps to be crime
Daily Record
|June 04, 2025
LEADING politicians who delete WhatsApp messages on government business will face criminal sanctions under a secrecy crackdown. Ministers could be fined up to £5000 after the scandal of Nicola Sturgeon wiping her messages during the pandemic. Families who lost loved ones to Covid were furious after thousands of messages between key
Scottish Government figures were destroyed.
It meant a mass of information including from then-deputy FM John Swinney had been lost, fuelling claims of betrayal.
This story is from the June 04, 2025 edition of Daily Record.
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