(Reuters) -Nicaraguan authorities said on Wednesday they were investigating Bayardo Arce, a long-time ally and economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega, and who was also one of the Sandinista commanders that governed the Central American nation in the 1980s.
Arce had been the last of the Sandinista generals to back Ortega, who has increasingly been cracking down on dissidents and isolating from global diplomacy.
Nicaragua’s attorney general’s office said the investigation into Arce was regarding “possible irregularities in transactions involving assets, properties and companies that could affect the national patrimony.”
(Reporting by Gabriela Selser; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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