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Apisai Ielemia (born 19 August 1955) is a  Tuvaluan politician. He served as the tenth  Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 2006 to 2010, and was returned as a member of parliament in the  Tuvaluan general election, 2010. He was re-elected to parliament in the  Tuvaluan general election, 2015. On 5 October 2016 Chief Justice Sweeney of the  High Court of Tuvaludeclared that Ielemia’s parliamentary seat was vacant as he was no longer qualified to be a member of parliament, as the consequence of the short time the opposition MP served time in jail following his conviction on 6 May 2016 in the Magistrate’s Court of charges of abuse of office during the final year of his term as Prime Minister (August 2006 to September 2010). [1] [2]  The abuse of office charges related to payments deposited into a  National Bank of Tuvalu personal account. [3] [4] 