Portuguese police have arrested former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates in a corruption probe.<br/> <br />The Prosecutor General's office says he and three others were arrested in an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering.<br/> <br />Socrates was detained late Friday. Authorities say he'll be brought before a criminal judge for questioning over suspicious banking operations and money transfers.<br/> <br />Socrates resigned as prime minister in 2011, as an escalating debt crisis forced him to request an international bailout... imposing painful austerity on Portugal.<br/> <br />Representatives of the center-left Socialist party could not immediately be reached for comment on Socrates' arrest.
