Bolivian police have arrested former interim President Jeanine Anez on charges of terrorism, sedition, and conspiracy, DW reports.
Anez replaced ex-President Evo Morales in November 2019 when he fled the country amid widespread protests against his reelection to an unconstitutional fourth term.
Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, which is now back in power, has claimed that Anez and her allies promoted his ouster after almost 14 years.
"I inform the Bolivian people that Mrs. Jeanine Anez has already been apprehended and is currently in the hands of the police," said Interior Minister Carlos Eduardo del Castillo in Twitter and Facebook statements.
The opposition had slammed the government's actions, with one deputy, Edwin Bazan, saying the MAS party had "mounted a judicial operation to implant the lie that there was a coup d'etat when what there was a [electoral] fraud."