Hamid Baghaei, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vice president in charge of executive affairs, has been arrested, Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei told reporters June 8. He did not elaborate on the charges against Baghaei, but many suspect corruption charges.

Baghaei, one of Ahmadinejad’s closest advisers, first entered the administration in 2006 as deputy of the cultural heritage and tourism organization. By 2011, Baghaei simultaneously held the position of vice president in charge of executive affairs and headed the presidential center. He would often accompany the president to the United Nations.

He's the second official from the Ahmadinejad administration to be arrested. Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Ahmadinejad’s first vice president from 2009 to 2013, was sentenced in January 2015 to five years in prison for embezzlement. He was fined $1.3 million.

Many of Iran’s Reformist newspapers celebrated Baghaei’s arrest and used the occasion to taunt Ahmadinejad for once claiming that he had “the most pure administration” in Iranian history and warning that charging his Cabinet with corruption would be a “red line.”