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(Recast)Iran arrests former vice president over unknown charges

Xinhua, June 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former Iranian vice president was detained on Monday, said the Iranian Judiciary spokesman, without stating reasons for the arrest, according to official IRNA news agency.

Hamid Baghaei was summoned to the judiciary on Monday and was later detained, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the spokesman, said, declining to talk about the charges against him.

Baghaei served as former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vice president in charge of executive affairs.

He is so far the second deputy to the former leader to have been arrested.

Earlier this year, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, the first vice president of Ahmadinejad, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison and was fined 10 billion rials (300,000 U.S. dollars) over financial corruption. He was also ordered to pay a compensation equivalent to 28.5 billion rials (855,000 dollars). Endit