Former Ruling PRI Party Boss Humberto Moreira Detained in Spain Alan Clendenning - The Associated Press
go to original January 15, 2016

A prominent former Mexican politician was detained Friday at Madrid's airport by anti-corruption officers and was being questioned by a judge, Spanish officials said.

Former Institutional Revolutionary Party chief Humberto Moreira was taken into custody based on a Spanish arrest warrant, said an official with the national police who spoke on condition of anonymity because of police policy. The official had no other details about why Moreira was sought by Spanish anti-corruption officers.

A court spokesman confirmed Friday night that Moreira was being questioned.

Moreira resigned in 2012 as party leader under a cloud of state government debt that accumulated when he was governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila. The debt was financed at least in part by falsified documents.

Moreira has not been charged in the U.S. or Mexico.

But two of Moreira's top associates have pleaded guilty in federal court in San Antonio, Texas, to conspiring to transport stolen money. In the plea agreement for businessman and media owner Roland Gonzalez Trevino dated last April, Moreira appears unnamed as co-conspirator 1, "a high-ranking official in Coahuila" who won the governorship. The plea agreement said he started in January or February of 2006 "taking money for his own personal use from the government of Coahuila."

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