Scottish multimillionaire said the former first minister had ‘devoted his life to Scotland’

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Sir Tom Hunter, one of Scotland’s wealthiest men, has confirmed he has paid for Alex Salmond’s body to be flown home from the Balkans.

Hunter, a multimillionaire investor and philanthropist, was agnostic about Scottish independence and was often critical of Scottish government policy but said Salmond had “devoted his life to Scotland”.