A former director of Macau's Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) has been remanded in custody, the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) said in a statement this afternoon.

The MP statement came after a statement this morning by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) that accused the ex-director of bribe-taking, money laundering and document forgery. 

Neither statement did identify the suspect. However, public broadcaster TDM and other local media have meanwhile identified him as Li Canfeng who headed the bureau between January 2015 and January 2020. 

The MP statement said that the CCAC had recently transferred eight suspects to the Public Prosecutions Office for follow-up investigation. 

According to the MP statement, the office's preliminary investigation has shown strong circumstantial evidence of four kinds of crime involving the eight suspects, namely taking bribes in order to commit a crime, punishable by up to eight years' imprisonment; giving bribes, punishable by up to three years in prison; money laundering , punishable by up to eight years behind bars; document forgery, punishable by up to eight years' imprisonment.

The MP statement said that after interrogating the eight suspects, and due to the seriousness of the alleged crimes, three of them have been remanded in custody, while the other suspects have been released on their own recognisance. Among other things, they are barred from leaving Macau and contacting the other suspects, the statement said.