Former PM Moana Carcasses

Vanuatu's Moana Carcasses to be released from jail today

Carcasses is among 14 former MPs, including Marcellino Pipite, who as acting speaker of parliament used presidential powers to pardon himself along with the rest of his group after they were found guilty of corruption and bribery charges.

On return from an overseas trip the then Head of State, Baldwin Lonsdale, challenged the decision and the men were jailed.

The corruption and bribery charges involved an amount of $US324,000 dollars which Carcasses said he gave to his colleagues as personal loans.