Peter Murrell will not appeal against his prison sentence for embezzlement.
The former chief executive of the SNP was jailed for five years three months in June after he admitted siphoning off more than £400,000 from his party over 12 years.
Murrell – the estranged husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon – falsified accounting records and created fake invoices in an attempt to cover up his brazen theft.
The shamed Nat had two weeks to decide whether or not to appeal the sentence he was handed by presiding judge Lord Young at the High Court in Edinburgh on June 23.
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