TAHITI LAWMAKER GETS JAIL SENTENCE

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TAHITI LAWMAKER GETS JAIL SENTENCE
Christian Tauupau diverted money

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, April 6, 2008) – The vice-president of French Polynesia’s opposition Aia Api Party Christian Taupau has been sentenced to four months in jail for abuse of trust.

He was sentenced by the appeal court in Papeete which also fined him nearly 20,000 US dollars.

He was found guilty of diverting money and falsifying cheques when he was in charge of a sports body.

Yesterday, the president of the Aia Api Party and mayor of Mahina, Emile Vernaudon, was released from jail after spending four months in prison as part of a corruption investigation.

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