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October 2015, Moana Carcasses and 13 other MPs were found guilty by the Vanuatu Supreme Court of bribery under the Penal Code. (An additional MP, Willie Jimmy, had already pleaded guilty, and another, Robert Bohn, was acquitted.) Carcasses was deputy prime minister at the time of his conviction.
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Carcasses government, the passports of "about ten" diplomats were revoked, with indications that more than two-thirds of the country's diplomats could lose their position, as their appointment had not followed proper procedures.
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