The 57-year-old submitted false invoices totalling £8,385 between 2008 and 2009, even after politicians' claims had become front-page news.

Already, a number of his spies have submitted claims and invoices which almost certainly are falsified.

It's unlikely we're going to get universal agreement to submit invoices.

He submitted false invoices and thereby stole a total of £12,448.

The executive, Donald Vaillancourt, submitted false invoices over 16 years from fake companies he created, prosecutors said.

He received more than $:5 million in indemnity payments and success fees after submitting false invoices.

He was also said by the prosecutors to have been involved in submitting false invoices.

"Were you to submit invoices for reasonable expenditures," another shudder and a pause.

They obtained the money by submitting invoices that overstated the costs of shipping cargo to Egypt.

The court had heard how he submitted false invoices for cleaning and printing work totalling £8,385 between 2008 and 2009.