The 67-year-old father of a family found living in isolation in a cellar in the Netherlands has been detained, police say.
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He is accused of false imprisonment, abuse and money laundering, police from Assen, in the eastern province of Drenthe, said on Thursday.
"We detained the father," a police spokeswoman confirmed.
Many details are still unknown, but there were indications on Thursday that the father was a member of a cult.
A spokesman from the Unification Church, known colloquially as the Moonies, said he had been a member at some stage.
It comes after a 58-year-old man from Austria was taken into custody the previous day.
A judge decided the man, identified as Josef B, should stay in custody on Thursday.
Josef B was renting the farm in the village of Ruinerwold, where the family - a father and his six grown-up children - were found earlier in the week.
The family was discovered in a cellar at the farm after one of the sons sought help in a nearby pub.
They are thought to have lived there for nine years in isolation from the outside world.
Australian Associated Press