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Former MP Denis MacShane has been jailed for six months for expenses fraud after admitting submitting 19 fake receipts amounting to £12,900.Former MP Denis MacShane has been jailed for six months for expenses fraud after admitting submitting 19 fake receipts amounting to £12,900.
The 65-year-old is the fifth MP to receive a prison sentence since the expenses scandal of 2009. He is the fifth MP to get a prison sentence after 2009's expenses scandal.
MacShane was a Labour MP for 18 years and served as Europe minister under Tony Blair between 2002 and 2005. MacShane, 65, was a Labour MP for 18 years and served as Europe minister under Tony Blair between 2002 and 2005.
Mr Justice Sweeney said MacShane had "deliberately created misleading and deceptive invoices" with the dishonesty involved "considerable".
The Commons authorities had described the ex-Rotherham MP's transgressions as the "gravest" they had come across.The Commons authorities had described the ex-Rotherham MP's transgressions as the "gravest" they had come across.
MacShane had maintained that he did not personally profit from the money, saying the fake claims had covered legitimate expenditure on trips to Europe.