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AN MP at the centre of a police inquiry into alleged mortgage fraud has still to be questioned by detectives a year after they launched their investigation.

Michelle Thomson resigned the SNP whip and was suspended by the party after it emerged last September that officers were looking into her property deals linked to a struck-off solicitor.

The Edinburgh West MP’s property firms were accused of preying on vulnerable people by buying homes at knockdown prices from struggling families and making huge profits from selling them on.

Lawyer Christopher Hales was struck off by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal in 2014 for misconduct for his role in the transactions.

Thomson, who has denied any wrongdoing, said in May that she had yet to be contacted by detectives involved in the probe.

She spoke of her “willingness to support them in their inquiries at any time”.

Last week Thomson said: “The position remains the same.”

Police Scotland said: “Enquiries are ongoing.”

Thomson was the SNP’s business spokeswoman at Westminster. She has remained as an independent MP, though she has voted with former SNP colleagues at Westminster.

In July, she pleaded to be allowed to return to the SNP. She sent an email to MPs saying that “there have been many days when I have felt very alone”.

The SNP said: “Michelle Thomson withdrew from SNP membership and that remains the position.”

In March the Sunday Mail revealed Thomson had put up her home for sale for offers over £550,000.