KUCHING: Eight people who illegally obtained their driving licence from a syndicate have surrendered them to the Anti-Corruption Agency.

This comes in the wake of 21 names being published in newspapers last Saturday. The names were of those who had illegally obtained licences and road tax discs.

State ACA director Mohamad Yusoff Akope said of the eight who came forward, two of them were on the list, while the other six surrendered when the read about the case in the papers.

Last Friday, the ACA busted a syndicate offering cloned driver's licence at RM1,500 and RM250 for a road tax renewal without paying insurance.

Two men, aged 25 and 35, believed to be the syndicate's operators, were detained at a budget hotel near Jalan MacDougall.
The officers also seized 21 cloned driving licences, worth RM31,500, and nine fake road tax discs, worth RM2,250, together with a personal computer and a printer.

"The list that we obtained from the seized computer only showed 21 names but we are sure that there are more."

Yusoff said they would go after the others on the list if they did not surrender the documents by next week.

He did not discount the fact that some individuals in certain government agencies might be involved in the syndicate.