A former mayor of Mahina in French Polynesia Emile Vernaudon has been given a one-year jail term for corruption.
Local media reports said he was convicted for giving a contract to a friend Edwin Teraiharoa in 2008, bypassing proper tendering procedures.
Both have been given jail sentences and $US9000 fines.
It was not immediately known if they would lodge an appeal.
Emile Vernaudon, the former mayor of Mahina in French Polynesia Photo: AFP
Vernaudon was last jailed in 2011 when France stripped him of his membership of the French National Order of Merit bestowed on him in 2000 as long-term mayor of Mahina and member of the French National Assembly.
In 2008, he made legal history by becoming the first person under French jurisdiction to be elected mayor while in jail.
At the time he was held for several months in connection with a probe into alleged fraud.
In his absence, the Mahina council installed him in office by placing a ribbon around his photograph placed in the mayor's chair.
