Report: Iran arrests former vice president under Ahmadinejad, second top ex-official detained

In this photo taken on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, then Vice President Hamid Baghaei, center, and then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad look at the Cyrus Cylinder at the National Museum in Tehran, Iran. Iranian authorities on Monday, June 8, 2015, arrested Baghaei, who served under Ahmadinejad, in the second such detention of a senior official from the hard-line former leader’s administration, the official IRNA news agency reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (The Associated Press)

In this photo taken on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, then Vice President Hamid Baghaei, second right, and then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visit the National Museum in Tehran, Iran. Iranian authorities on Monday, June 8, 2015, arrested Baghaei, who served under Ahmadinejad, in the second such detention of a senior official from the hard-line former leader’s administration, the official IRNA news agency reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (The Associated Press)

Iran's official news agency says one of the country's vice presidents under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested, the second such high-profile detention among officials of the former administration.

IRNA's report quotes judicial spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi as saying that Hamid Baghaei, who was Ahmadinejad's vice president in charge of executive affairs, was arrested on Monday. There were no further details.

Ahmadinejad's administration ended in 2013.

In January, Iran's supreme court convicted and sentenced former Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi to five years in prison and fined him 10 billion rials ($300,000).

The verdict came after repeated allegations by foes of Ahmadinejad's hard-line government of massive corruption.

Since taking over, President Hassan Rouhani has criticized growing corruption in the country in unusually blunt terms.