Former Bolivian president Luis Arce detained on corruption charges

Case involves allegedly allowing state funds for Indigenous projects to be transferred to government officials' accounts

Bolivia's former president Luis Arce was detained on Wednesday on charges that he enabled illicit enrichment" by allegedly allowing state funds earmarked for Indigenous communities to be transferred into the personal accounts of government officials.

Arce served as Bolivia's president until last month, 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 leftwing Movement for Socialism, or Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).