"The police have not commented on the alleged detention, but the vice-president, Edmand Lara, posted a video on social media congratulating a specialist police unit for having apprehended Luis Arce, in compliance with a resolution issued by a prosecutorial authority. Arce served as Bolivia's president until last November, when he handed over the sash to the centre-right former senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, who won the runoff in an election that ended nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas)."
"The state broadcaster Bolivia TV posted that Arce was giving a statement before the police while staff from the office of the ombudsman accompany him. It noted the involvement of the Special Force to Fight Crime's department for the investigation of illicit gains. Outside the headquarters of the FELCC in the capital, La Paz, where the former president had supposedly been taken, Tejada told journalists she was trying to enter the building to obtain more information."
Luis Arce was reportedly detained and taken to police headquarters in La Paz. Maria Nela Prada Tejada said she received information from unofficial sources that police had illegally kidnapped Arce. The police have not commented on the alleged detention. Vice-president Edmand Lara posted a video congratulating a specialist police unit for apprehending Arce, saying the action complied with a prosecutorial resolution and adding that those who stole from the country will be held to account. Bolivia TV said Arce was giving a statement before the police while ombudsman staff accompanied him. Tejada said she saw no prior notification and described Arce being placed into a minibus with blacked-out windows in the Sopocachi neighbourhood.
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