Former Portuguese prime minister José Sócrates arrested over alleged fraud

Sócrates and three other people held following an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering

Portuguese police have arrested former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates and three other people in an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering, the prosecutor general’s office said on Saturday.

The detention, the first involving a former premier in Portugal under democracy, follows arrests of other high-ranking officials or prominent people in separate inquiries in the past few months as prosecutors intensify a fight against corruption in a country notorious for its slow justice system.

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