ren tantely gabrio andrianarivo born 25 may 1954 in ambositra amoroni mania was a politician in madagascar he was the prime minister of madagascar from 23 july 1998 until 31 may 2002 under president didier ratsirakaduring ratsirakas first period in office the second republic andrianarivo served in the government as minister of industry energy and minesfollowing ratsirakas victory in the 1996 presidential election andrianarivo became deputy prime minister in charge of the economy and finance in the new government of prime minister pascal rakotomavo named on february 27 1997 he was one of three deputy prime ministers along with pierrot rajaonarivelo and herizo razafimahaleo following parliamentary elections held in may 1998 he was named prime minister by ratsiraka in july to replace rakotomavo during the 2002 election dispute between ratsiraka and marc ravalomanana which eventually led to ratsiraka being forced into exile andrianarivo announced a state of emergency imposed by ratsiraka following ravalomananas declaration that he was president on february 22 in the following months the two rival governments struggled for control of the island on 27 may 2002 ravalomananas forces raided the prime ministers residence in antananarivo the last government building in the capital still under the control of the ratsiraka government and detained andrianarivo ravalomananas prime minister jacques sylla took over the residence in response ratsiraka said he would not participate in planned talks until andrianarivo was releasedandrianarivos trial began on december 22 2003 and on december 24 he was convicted of embezzlement and usurping powers and was sentenced to 12 years of hard labor he was also fined 42 billion malagasy francs about 76 million us dollars about 74 million to repay the allegedly embezzled money and another 200000 in damages the prosecution argued that andrianarivo was not legitimately the prime minister when he withdrew the money and that he therefore did so illegally andrianarivo argued that despite ravalomananas nomination of sylla as prime minister he remained legally prime minister until he was detained on 27 may 2002 due to the absence of a decree abrogating his nomination up to that point he said that it had been necessary to withdraw the money for the payment of wages and other administrative purposes according to amnesty international the trial was marred by irregularities his health was also said to be poor at the time in ravalomananas 2003 end of the year speech he revealed that andrianarivo was allowed to seek medical treatment abroadon may 3 2007 it was announced that about 23 million held by andrianarivo in switzerland was unfrozen and was again available to him following a money laundering investigation that was closed due to lack of evidence andrianarivo was however required to pay for the cost of the investigation which began in late 2003 the malagasy government which wanted the money protested the swiss decisionin france andrianarivo met with former president albert zafy on june 11 2007 zafy had also met with ratsiraka and former deputy prime minister pierrot rajaonarivelo in the previous days andrianarivo and ratsiraka met with zafy again on june 25