The mayor of Ecuador’s largest port city was arrested Tuesday on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, as prosecutors widened a case that also swept up his brother and other members of his inner circle, the Associated Press said. 

Ecuador’s Attorney General’s office said in a social media post that authorities had detained Guayaquil Mayor Aquiles Álvarez and 10 additional people linked to the investigation. Among those arrested was Álvarez’s brother, Xavier Álvarez, who serves as the president of a widely followed football club, the AP said. 

Photos released by the Attorney General’s office showed a raid in Guayaquil in which police confiscated laptops, phones, and stacks of cash, according to the news agency. Prosecutors did not immediately detail the evidence underpinning the new allegations, and Álvarez’s defense said it had not yet seen the case file.

Officials said that at the time of his detention, Álvarez was not wearing an ankle monitor that a court had ordered him to use in another ongoing investigation involving the illegal sale of subsidized gasoline. Álvarez has denied corruption allegations tied to that separate case, claiming they are politically driven, the AP reported.

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