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And while Ortega has moved up in ranks, the future of one of his senior officers â€" Lt. Col. Charlton Roches - is uncertain. The BDF team hasn’t concluded its investigation into Roches as yet. As we told you, the Ministry of Defence called in the Auditor General to investigate whether there had been any shady money dealings between the BDF and Roches's private company, Belize Jungle Experience. And now, and internal BDF review is happening.

Well, today Defense Minister John Saldivar didn’t provide much details but said that so far â€" there isn’t any incriminating evidence of shady or irregular transactions.

Hon. John Saldivar - Minister of Defense

"The investigation continues and I believe that only this week we received a correspondence from the FIU who had been asked to investigate the bank accounts and the company and I can say that have no found anything out of the ordinary with the company so the investigation continues and pretty soon a decision will be made with respect to that."

Courtney Weatherbune

"So at this point it can't be said if there was any collusion within the BDF to get funds directed to Mr. Roches' company?"

Hon. John Saldivar

"At this point we are still investigating so I wouldn't want to talk about it until we have concluded the investigation properly."

As you heard, the investigation is still ongoing.