On Monday, News Five brought you an exclusive look at the report on Won Hong Kim. It contains reports of interviews done with staff members at the nationality section who played roles in the issuance of a nationality certificate for the South Korean, who was in Taiwanese prison when his nationality certificate and Belizean passport were issued.
That report was completed on October fourth, 2013. Former Minister of State, Elvin Penner delivered the incomplete nationality application and saw it through processing. The report makes specific mention of two senior staff members who were questioned – counter supervisor, Ady Pacheco, and Officer in Charge of the Nationality Section, Gordon Wade. Immigration Director Maria Marin recommended in her conclusion that Wade be asked, “to give an explanation for the shortcomings listed above and specifically to respond to the circumstances surrounding the Won Hong Kim case.”
Marin further recommends that Counter Supervisor Ady Pacheco be asked to, “especially explain how the Won Hong Kim file was submitted to the Minister for signature without her having vetted the file…that she give an explanation in writing as to the circumstances leading to the twenty plus entries in the PR register using duplicate numbers and without supporting documentation in any file…and to give an explanation in writing as to the various files accepted on the tenth and eighteenth of July 2013 which went missing and for which certificates were prepared similar to the Won Hong Kim case…”
While that report and those recommendations were made by Marin on October fourth, 2013, the report was not forwarded to C.E.O. Candelaria Saldivar until December twentieth, 2013 – more than two months later. On January tenth, 2014, Saldivar responded to Marin asking her to seek a response from the officers named, Wade and Pacheco.
Today, News Five has been reliably informed that the officers in question have not seen that report officially and have not been asked to respond to the findings. We are also reliably informed that as recently as today all officers are being asked to sign an oath of secrecy, and are being warned that their phone records can be examined – this is in response to the leaking of the Won Hong Kim report.
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