FILE PHOTO: El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Nicaragua said on Friday it granted nationality to former Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and some family members, following an arrest order by El Salvador as part of a money laundering and corruption probe.
Sanchez Ceren's wife, Margarita Villalta, and three of the couple's children were also granted Nicaraguan nationality, according to the announcement by Nicaragua's interior ministry published in its official gazette.
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