LONDON (Reuters) - The Scottish government denied on Friday it had any contact with oil firm BP before its decision last year to release the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing.
It said it had transferred Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to Tripoli purely on compassionate grounds.
"We had absolutely no representations from BP," a spokesman for the Scottish administration said.
"Mr Megrahi ... was sent home to die according to the due process of Scots law, based on the medical report of the Scottish Prison Service director of health and care, and the recommendations of the Parole Board and prison governor".
Scotland has its own legal powers within the British political system.
