The former magistrate for the Civil Registry office in Estabania, Azua, was found guilty and sentenced to five years incarceration and payment of a RD$200,000 fine to the Central Electoral Board for the crime of falsifying public documents. The accused had forged birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorces, death certificates and late birth notifications. The village of Estabania is one of the sites where bogus city council members could get the necessary documents to obtain official passports with visas to travel to Europe. These were issued to “supposed” husbands, wives or children of “supposed” members of the city council. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) was the plaintiff in the case against former registry officer Robert Bienvenido Sanchez. Inspectors working for the JCE had investigated and established that the official had committed a whole series of “irregularities” in this case. Judge Rafael Wilson Abreu of the First Penal Chamber of the Court of the First Instance in the district of Azua found the evidence sufficient to impose sentence, and order an arrest and imprisonment order for the accused.