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Labour's former Europe minister pleaded guilty to false accounting after filing 19 fake receipts totalling nearly £13,000
Mon 23 Dec 2013
The former MP and Europe minister Denis MacShane has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment after admitting making bogus expenses claims amounting to nearly £13,000.
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The judge stipulated that he should serve half of the sentence, and could be released earlier. Flanked by two security officers, MacShane said "cheers" as the sentence was delivered, adding "quelle surprise" as he was led from the dock.
