The Met statment is here:
news.met.police.uk/news/update-lnvestigation-into-leave-dot-eu-381332
Seems there is a channel, 'Early Investigative Advice' where Police can seek advice from CPS while investigation is ongoing:
www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/police-and-cps-relations
CPS advice was presumably that the evidence so far, and/or that in prospect, was not likely to clear the prosecution threshold for prospect of conviction. Investigation discontinued. Could probably be resumed if significant new evidence emerges.
I suspect that lawyers such as Jolyon Maugham's Good Law Project will be all over decision for possible challenge on public interest grounds.
There is also still an investigation by the National Crime Agency which may give putative defendants more to worry about.
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