Yo! Hey, Garci?

Well, well, well. It seems that the walls around Garci are beginning to crack. The Central Bank announced yesterday that Garci's passport, at least the one submitted for examination, is a fake. A forgery! No less than six imperfections, tsk tsk.

ABS CBN Interactive reports it this way:

"The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), however, said one of the passports submitted by Garcillano was fake. A report by the BSP Banknotes and Securities Printing Department said Garcillano's passport with number code JJ243816 "does not conform to standard", noting discrepancies in the size of the booklet, the paper used, the stitching and print quality.

It said the size of the booklet (123mm x 85 mm) was smaller than the standard: the inside front cover (data page) and inside back cover, paper and print, stitching and additional stitch along the seam do not conform to standard and pages 1 to 32 had cuts and joints along the seam that should not have been there."

It gets even better - later today, Senator Serge Osmena revealed that a passenger bearing the name "Virgilio Garcillano" was on a flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Singapore last year. If it is proven that Gloria's Garci was THE Garci on that plane, Garci's got a lot of explaining to do.

For as long as one stays the course, one will eventually find the truth. Keep digging, guys, keep digging.