YES Scotland has mocked claims of a “missing £1.5 million” in its first post on Twitter/X in 12 years.
The last time the pro-independence group posted on the social media website was on polling day for the 2014 referendum.
It comes as Yes Scotland director Scott Martin claimed that the complaints about the group's finances are part of a personal vendetta against him.
Martin told the Sunday Post that he believes he has been portrayed as a “thief” because he had access to the campaign’s accounts and was “sitting next to Peter Murrell”.
We told how the complainers – David Henry and Sean Clerkin – spoke out after handing in what they claimed was a dossier of evidence to Police Scotland in Edinburgh last week.
Yes Scotland have repeatedly denied the allegations that there is £1.5m missing from the company’s accounts.
And now Yes Scotland’s X account appears to have been reactivated amid the row over the group’s finances.
“It’s been a while. Some would say a generation or so ago,” the post on X reads.
“Woken up excited to hear that there is £1.5m missing.
“Must have been in the sofa given to a recycling charity after the referendum.
“Reward of two ‘Yes’ mugs to anyone with info leading to its recovery. DMs are open.”
The post was viewed over 33,000 times by Sunday afternoon after it was posted just after 9pm on Saturday, July 18. The comments were disabled.
Mhairi Hunter, SNP councillor for Glasgow Central, retweeted the post, and joked: “Someone kept the password.”
James Kelly added: “This is one of the most bizarre tweets ever. The first post from Yes Scotland since September 2014.”
Kelly later suggested the account may have been hacked. It is not clear who is behind the post.
It comes as Martin told the Sunday Post he would consider legal action over the damage he believes has been done to his reputation.
It’s been a while. Some would say a generation or so ago. Woken up excited to hear that there is £1.5M missing. Must have been in the sofa given to a recycling charity after the referendum. Reward of two ‘Yes’ mugs to anyone with info leading to its recovery. DMs are open.
— Yes Scotland (@YesScotland) July 18, 2026
Henry denied that his complaint to officers had been motivated by personal animosity towards Martin.
“I don’t have a vendetta against him at all,” he told the newspaper.
“I do call into question his lack of professionalism on a number of issues.
“It’s nothing personal. I would like the party to play by the rules and that clearly hasn’t been happening.”
Martin insisted that the complaint was based on a “very basic” misunderstanding, a position espoused by Yes Scotland boss Blair Jenkins in a statement issued through his lawyer last week.
He said the change relates to the way income was recognised between accounting periods, rather than the money disappearing.
Martin said it was a “prior year adjustment”, adding: “The technical reason for it is to do with whether donations should be recognised when they are received, which is what the second accounts say, or when it’s spent, which is what the first accounts say.
“The first accounts effectively took the view that it’s a bit of an odd company because it spends everything that it receives, so let’s defer that income into the next period at which point the money will be spent.”
Martin insisted that every donation and pound spent could be reconciled by Yes Scotland, and that the controversy had gathered momentum due to Peter Murrell being jailed for £400,000 for embezzlement from the SNP.
Henry was one of those who raised concerns about the “ring-fenced” independence fighting fund, which led Police Scotland to uncover Murrell’s criminality through Operation Branchform.
