The Central Electoral Board has dismissed five of its employees from the Civil Registry offices that are part of the passport scandal. Hundreds of diplomatic passports were “sold” to phony family members, many of whom were “created” through false birth certificates, wedding certificates or divorce papers. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) fired the five Civil Registry officials accused of supplying false documents to municipal council members in order to obtain the passports. Ironically, the JCE also suspended the registrar for the XII District, Luis Felipe Rodriguez, who had told the press last week that there were registry offices that took in as much as RD$300,000 monthly and did not report it to the JCE. In other developments, the Attorney General’s office arrested civil registry official Milton Elias Pereira, but Pereira was not on the JCE list of dismissals. In addition, the mayor of the tiny town of Las Yayas was arrested and taken to jail along with a town councilor from Azua together with her husband. Eliezer Martinez was arrested after he turned himself in, and Juana Agramonte and her husband were arrested after being questioned by assistant attorney general Frank Soto and assistant prosecutor Luis Gonzalez