In our last segment we told you about the three Immigration Officers from the passport section who were taken before the public service commission today. Well, two more are pending; they are Ady Pacheco and Gilroy Wade, from the nationality section.
Immigration Minister Godwin Hulse says they are the ones who handled the disappeared Citizen Kim file. The Director of Immigration wrote to them asking for their explanation and they "lawyered up". Through sources in the public service, 7News has obtained a copy of that letter from their attorney Godfrey Smith. It says that they deny acting in breach of Department procedures since they have never been provided with an outline of their specific duties.
As for any breakdown in procedure which led to the Citizen Kim passport, Smith writes that quote, "my clients say that any such misprocedure – as all of Belize knows – was conceived and engineered by Minister of state Elvin Penner acting either personally or through instructions directed at public officers.
Smith goes on to write that it is the intention of the Department to make his clients be scapegoats for Penner's disgraceful actions.
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