The release doesn't say much else - and coming four days after the Prime Minister made the first announcement, it has to be viewed as a disappointment. The release still does not disclose who the passport was issued to or under what circumstances. Neither does it say who signed the passport, and under what circumstances, or how the case came to light. But 7news has learned that the new Belizean is Kim Won Hong - who is wanted in South Korea for embezzling millions of dollars from a huge South Korean Firm called SK Shipping Company. An SK executive Chey Tae-won is serving time for the embezzlement - and his case is coming up for appeal. He says Won-hong was the mastermind behind the embezzlement scheme - and that Won-hong swindled him out of half a billion dollars - and that's billion with a "B".

Now Won-Hong is trying to avoid being extradited from Taiwan to South Korea - and that's why he got a Belizean passport. And, multiple sources tell us he paid 120 thousand US dollars to get it expedited through the back door.

Elvin Penner was forced to resign from cabinet because he signed the passport application and the picture - for someone, who by all indications had not entered Belize much less gained permanent residency. The Justice of the Peace who signed it was a former UDP municipal elected representative and the person who reportedly set the events in motion is also a current municipal elected representative. That's Deputy Mayor Eric Chang, who recently accompanied Mayor Darrell Bradley to Taiwan but who has not returned yet.