Police have dropped their investigation into claims the UDA threatened Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's DUP leadership campaign team - after the complaint was withdrawn.
It emerged in May that Sir Jeffrey had claimed the loyalist paramilitary group threatened some of his team during his campaign to become party leader.
A PSNI investigation was launched after it received a complaint that a "number of members of a political party had been threatened during a recent leadership campaign".
But nearly five months on, police confirmed to Belfast Live the issue is no longer being pursued.
"This matter has been closed as the complainant did not wish to pursue this matter any further," a PSNI spokesman said.
Sir Jeffrey narrowly lost out to Stormont minister Edwin Poots in the DUP's first leadership contest in its 50-year history.
He eventually became DUP leader in June after Mr Poots resigned just weeks into the job following an internal party revolt.
It was reported Sir Jeffrey made the UDA threats allegation during a turbulent party meeting at a Belfast hotel to ratify Mr Poots' election win.
The PSNI probe centred on text and Facebook messages sent to DUP politicians, the Sunday Life reported.
Mr Poots at the time said any allegations of threats to anyone should be reported to police.
He said no members of his team engaged in acts of intimidation, insisting they fought a fair and clean campaign.
In a recent interview, Sir Jeffrey said he has a duty as a political leader to speak out against paramilitarism and organised criminality in Northern Ireland.
He told the Sunday Independent: "Where I have responsibility is to use my voice on the unionist side, to ensure those who claim to be unionists but who continue to engage in organised crime end paramilitarism."
Asked what he was doing to tackle the problem, he said: "As a unionist leader I am very clear. I want to see a Northern Ireland that is liberated from the grip of paramilitarism and is freed from the terrible impact that terrorism has had here.
"That means we must all use our influence to rid that scourge from society, whether it comes from one side or the other."
The Lagan Valley MP added: "I will use my influence as best I can, where I believe that influence can be brought to bear, to see an end to the kind of criminality and paramilitarism that sadly has a grip on communities in parts of Northern Ireland."
The DUP was asked by Belfast Live if the withdrawn complaint to police over alleged UDA threats had been made by a party member. It was also asked whether the PSNI should continue investigating.
The party did not respond to requests for a comment.
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