Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was arrested Friday on an international warrant a day after he left the country amid a corruption probe.
An official at the Austrian Federal Office of Criminal Investigations said Sanader was arrested on the expressway connecting the provinces of Salzburg and Carinthia.
Sanader was then brought to detention facilities of the Salzburg provincial court, said the official who did not give his name on the telephone.
In a statement mailed to the Zagreb office of the Associated Press, police spokesman Krunoslav Borovec said Austrian police informed them that Sanader was arrested at 3:50 p.m. (1430 GMT) “in the Salzburg area.”
Sanader, who abruptly resigned as prime minister 17 months ago, left Croatia on Thursday morning, when it became clear that prosecutors wanted to investigate him for allegedly conspiring to commit crime and abuse of office.
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