A former leader of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and erstwhile ally of President Enrique Pena Nieto has been arrested in Spain, Mexican and Spanish officials said on Friday.
Humberto Moreira, who was PRI chairman in 2011 before he stood down after a debt scandal was uncovered in Coahuila, the northern state he had previously governed, was arrested in Madrid's international airport, the Spanish official said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
Moreira was arrested in an operation against money laundering and other crimes, the Spanish official said.
Moreira's former finance secretary in Coahuila pled . . .
