Former British MP jailed for faking expense claims

"However chaotic your general paperwork was, there was deliberate, oft-repeated and prolonged dishonesty over a period of years - involving a flagrant breach of trust and consequent damage to parliament, with correspondingly reduced confidence in our priceless democratic system...," the judge said.
Parliamentary authorities began looking at MacShane's claims in 2009 when the wider scandal engulfed Westminster, and referred him to Scotland Yard within months.
But the principle of parliamentary privilege meant detectives were not given access to damning correspondence with the standards commissioner in which MacShane detailed how signatures on receipts from the European Policy Institute (EPI) had been faked.

The body was controlled by MacShane and the general manager's signature was not genuine.