Former Real Madrid president held on fraud charge

By DPA,

Madrid : Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz was arrested with two other suspects in the Spanish city of Cordoba for alleged fraud, police said Saturday.


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No further details were made public.

Sanz was at the head of Real Madrid 1995-2000, and he is currently the owner of the La Liga club Malaga.

This is not the first time that the 65-year-old Sanz has been suspected in a case of fraud.

He was already subjected to investigation in 1999, over the re-zoning of a plot of land near Madrid.

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