Another Ex-President Held in Graft Inquiry
Costa Rica detained a former president on suspicion of corruption, days after placing another ex-president, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, under house arrest in connection with a bribery probe.
Judicial sources said Rafael Angel Calderon, who ruled from 1990 to 1994, was detained for questioning about a $39-million loan from Finland to Costa Rica in 2001 to improve public hospitals. Calderon had left office at the time of the loan, but he helped broker the deal. Prosecutors say they found $440,500 of the loan in Calderon’s bank account. He denies wrongdoing.
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