The First Minister sent a strongly worded letter to Kerry denying the company lobbied Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi.
Alex Salmond last night told US Senator John Kerry that oil giant BP did not influence the decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The First Minister sent a strongly worded letter to Kerry denying the company lobbied Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi.