CCAC | Marine and Water Bureau high-ranking officials involved in graft case

The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) has initiated a series of judiciary measures against two high-­ranking officials at the Marine and Water Bureau who were suspected of being involved in bribery acts, according to its statement released last Saturday night.
The statement was only released to the public after local media enquired with the bureau. It has triggered public skepticism of the watchdog’s transparency when dealing with cases involving top-level government officials.
The two suspected officials currently under investigation were said to be “a supervisor and an official from the bureau’s higher management”, whose identities have yet been withheld by the CCAC. Both were denied exit of the city and suspended from their posts during the inquiry.
The Marine and Water Bureau also issued two statements later over the weekend in immediate response to the released statement, claiming that the overall operation of the bureau was unaffected by the pair’s suspension, as they would arrange personnel to fill the vacancies to minimize the impact of the incident.
According to the online media outlet, All about Macau, the Secretary for Transport and Public Works, Raimundo Rosário, responded to the media’s questions yesterday over the dilemma of manpower shortage for high-ranking official positions in the departments under his control, joking that it could be due to bad fengshui in the secretariat.