Police in Mauritius on Sunday arrested the island's former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects' homes, officials said.

Officers detained the 63-year-old along with his wife Kobita Jugnauth on Saturday and questioned them for several hours, police sources who asked not to be named told AFP.

Kobita Jugnauth was later released and Pravind Jugnauth was placed under formal arrest in the early hours of Sunday.

Pravind Jugnauth's lawyer Raouf Gulbul told reporters: "He gave his version of events and denied the allegations made against him."

He said the ex-premier would appear before a judge later on Sunday.

A police incident report seen by AFP detailed a search by officers at the home of another suspect, who works for a local leisure company.

It said they seized documents bearing the names of the Jugnauths, as well as luxury watches and stacks of various currencies.

Echoing France’s Napoleon Bonaparte, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday (February 15, 2025) took to social media to signal continued resistance to limits on his executive authority in the face of multiple legal challenges.

“He who saves his country does not violate any Law,” Mr. Trump, a Republican, proclaimed on his Truth Social network. The White House did not respond to a request for more details.

On February 15, 2025, a freed Palestinian prisoner was seen embracing a child after being released by Israel as part of a prisoner swap and ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. The emotional moment unfolded in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip, marking a significant moment of reunion following the exchange.

After being held hostage since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, Israeli-Argentinian Yair Horn was finally released on February 15, 2025. He was seen waving to those around him as he disembarked from a military helicopter at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), flanked by security forces and his family.

Sagui Dekel-Chen, who was held captive during the brutal October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, was reunited with his wife and family on February 15, 2025. The emotional moment marked the end of months of uncertainty and heartache as he embraced his loved ones in Israel.

A former Palestinian prisoner, released as part of the sixth hostage-prisoner exchange, is welcomed by a relative upon arriving at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 15, 2025. The Israeli Prison Service on February 15 confirmed it had freed 369 prisoners from the Ofer and Kziot prisons near Ramallah and Gaza respectively, after transferring them "from several prisons across the country". 

Israel and Hamas completed the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners on Saturday with just over two weeks remaining in their fragile Gaza ceasefire's initial phase, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Israel to begin a Mideast tour.

Israelis expressed relief as the three hostages — Argentinian-Israeli Iair Horn, 46; American-Israeli Sagui Dekel Chen, 36; and Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29 — seemed in better condition than the emaciated ones freed a week ago.