A former Plymouth council official has been arrested as part of a long-running fraud investigation.
Geoff Driver, treasurer and chamberlain at Plymouth City Council in the early 1990s and now Conservative leader of Lancashire County Council (LCC), was held as police probe financial irregularities at LCC.
Lancashire Police said the arrests at addresses in Preston and Merseyside in May were made on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and witness intimidation.
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