FORMER EL SALVADOR PRESIDENT ARRESTED
SAN SALVADOR: Police arrested El Salvador’s ex-president Elias Antonio Saca and several other former officials yesterday for alleged embezzlement and money laundering, officials said. Saca, 51, and six other former officials from his government were detained in the early morning “on charges of various crimes”, it said on Twitter. Saca is a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance. He was president of El Salvador from 2004 to 2009. – AFP