A doctor in New Caledonia has been given a five-year jail sentence for defrauding the health care system of $US1.5 million.
The court's sentence for the general practitioner was suspended for three years and he was fined $US100,000.
He was found to have charged the health system for fictitious consultations, including files he created of people who were dead.
In 2017, he claimed to have carried out more than 23,000 consultations.
The court also banned him from any future work as a physician.