Aure Ricardo Florentino Garcia has told reporters that even though he is being investigated along with the group of false councilmen who obtained diplomatic passports, his case is clear on the one hand, but a bit confusing on the other. It seems that Florentino Garcia handed in his birth certificate and some photos to the president of the municipal council of the town of Fantino, Uladislao Abreu Duran (a.k.a. “Israel”) . Abreu Duran is currently being held in La Victoria prison by decree of magistrate Jose Reynaldo Ferreira. According to Florentino Garcia, the official handed him a diplomatic passport containing a Spanish visa. Florentino promised to send RD$160,000 to Abreu Duran. The bogus council member said that Abreu Duran had asked him for a copy of his “cedula” (the personal ID and voter registration card in the DR) but never gave the documents back nor informed how things were going, allegedly because things were “getting hot.” Nonetheless, when Florentino Garcia was arrested by agents from the Attorney General’s office, the investigations at the Ministry of Foreign Relations turned up a passport issued in Florintino’s name, with his date of birth and “cedula” but with someone else’s photograph. Not only that, but someone had married Florentino to a woman he had never seen nor heard of. Furthermore, someone using his name has been sending money from Spain to the Dominican Republic. Sources told El Caribe that the second passport was sold for RD$200,000.