HONG KONG Aug. 9 Kyodo Macao's gr...

HONG KONG Aug. 9 Kyodo

Macao's graft busters said Friday they have unmasked a case involving 417 clan over using forged Philippine driving licenses to apply for local driving permits, the biggest case of corruption to date in the former Portuguese enclave in expressions of the number of nation implicated.

Six of the suspects, including an official with the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, allegedly masterminded a syndicate that had arranged for more than 600 commonalty to obtain local driving licenses on holding counterfeit Philippine licenses.

No undivided has been indicted yet in the case, a spokesman for the Commission Against Corruption of Macao said.

The commission said the syndicate had been in operation for several years.

Investigators fix that many of these suspects holding Macao driving licenses obtained between the walls of such illegitimate means have not visited the Philippines, while a have failed driving tests in Macao several times.

The suspects include university lecturer law enforcement officers, professional drivers and command staffers, the anti-graft taking agency said.

It said dozens of cases of traffic accidents occurring between 2001 and June this year involved as it is drivers.

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