El Salvador's Former President Antonio Saca Arrested on Graft Charges Sunday Oct 30,2016

Police in El Salvador arrested the country's ex-president Elias Antonio Saca and six other suspects including three serving government officials on Sunday Oct 30,2016 for alleged embezzlement and money laundering, authorities 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 was a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) while he was president of El Salvador from 2004 to 2009.

He was expelled from ARENA at the end of 2009 after the party blamed him for its defeat in presidential and legislative elections that year.

Saca is accused of embezzlement, money laundering and links to illegal groups, the prosecutors' office said.