The accusations are based on a number of photos that are alleged to show the former president traveling with a minor woman, identified as "NM".

Stated to have been 14 years old

The pictures will come from a mobile phone belonging to a relative of the now 19-year-old woman. She is alleged to have been 14 years old when she first started accompanying Morales on trips, writes the BBC, referring the information to the Spanish news agency EFE.

Evo Morales has been in exile since the controversial 2019 election. Morales was declared the winner, but the result was strongly questioned, and after growing protests, he fled the country in what appeared to be a military coup.

Nowadays he is based in Argentina, near the Bolivian border, and from there waged a kind of propaganda war with Bolivia's new government.

Several serious allegations

The caretaker right-wing government in Bolivia has previously made several other serious criminal allegations against Morales, including incitement and terrorism.

No new elections have yet been held in Bolivia, but after delays due to the covid pandemic, it is planned for 6 September.