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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — A Slovenian prosecutor has charged the country's former ambassador to Spain with sexually abusing his three daughters.

Slavko Ozbolt, the prosecutor in the coastal town of Koper, said Tuesday that details from the indictment could not be revealed because of the sensitivity of the case.

STA news agency said Peter Reberc — who faces up to eight years in prison if convicted — is charged with repeatedly abusing his daughters between 2005-2007, when two of them were under 15 years old.

The report says Reberc’s wife reported him to the police.

Reberc, a former politician, became ambassador to Spain in 2008, but was fired from the foreign ministry in 2010 for allegedly embezzling embassy funds.