diff --git a/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlimport/data/mce-nested.docx b/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlimport/data/mce-nested.docx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c110f63dae40
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diff --git a/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlimport/ooxmlimport.cxx b/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlimport/ooxmlimport.cxx
index bd7b1800cad0..d7ce137afe02 100644
--- a/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlimport/ooxmlimport.cxx
+++ b/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlimport/ooxmlimport.cxx
@@ -1583,6 +1583,16 @@ DECLARE_OOXMLIMPORT_TEST(testMceWpg, "mce-wpg.docx")
     getParagraphOfText(1, xText, "DML1");
 }
 
+DECLARE_OOXMLIMPORT_TEST(testMceNested, "mce-nested.docx")
+{
+    // Vertical position of the textbox was incorrect due to incorrect nested mce handling.
+    uno::Reference<text::XTextFramesSupplier> xTextFramesSupplier(mxComponent, uno::UNO_QUERY);
+    uno::Reference<container::XIndexAccess> xIndexAccess(xTextFramesSupplier->getTextFrames(), uno::UNO_QUERY);
+    uno::Reference<beans::XPropertySet> xFrame(xIndexAccess->getByIndex(0), uno::UNO_QUERY);
+    // positionV's posOffset from the bugdoc, was 0.
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(sal_Int32(EMU_TO_MM100(2514600)), getProperty<sal_Int32>(xFrame, "VertOrientPosition"));
+}
+
 DECLARE_OOXMLIMPORT_TEST(testFdo70457, "fdo70457.docx")
 {
     // The document contains a rotated bitmap
diff --git a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx
index ed1ae178a0e5..a50f449bd83c 100644
--- a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx
+++ b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ void SAL_CALL OOXMLFastContextHandler::startFastElement
     if (oox::getNamespace(Element) == static_cast<sal_Int32>(NS_mce))
         m_bDiscardChildren = prepareMceContext(Element, Attribs);
 
-    if (!m_bDiscardChildren)
+    else if (!m_bDiscardChildren)
     {
         attributes(Attribs);
         lcl_startFastElement(Element, Attribs);
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ throw (uno::RuntimeException, xml::sax::SAXException)
         m_bTookChoice = aState.m_bTookChoice;
     }
 
-    if (!m_bDiscardChildren)
+    else if (!m_bDiscardChildren)
         lcl_endFastElement(Element);
 
 #ifdef DEBUG_CONTEXT_HANDLER