Choose the correct verb phrases to complete the whistleblower's dramatic email.

The incriminating financial records were ordered to be destroyed just hours before the auditors arrived. Now, the former CEO is reported to have been arrested while trying to flee to a tropical island.

The incriminating financial records were ordered to be destroyed just hours before the auditors arrived. Now, the former CEO is reported to have been arrested while trying to flee to a tropical island.

In the first sentence, the records did not issue an order or destroy anything themselves; they received the action. Therefore, both verbs must be passive: were ordered (main verb) and to be destroyed (infinitive).

In the second sentence, the CEO is the subject of the passive reporting verb is reported. Because the arrest already happened, we use the perfect passive infinitive to have been arrested. Using the active "to have arrested" would incorrectly imply the CEO arrested someone else!