Macau probing former top prosecutor over corruption scandal: sources

Hong Kong

MACAU'S anti-corruption agency has begun an investigation into a former senior figure in the public prosecutions office, an official and lawmakers said on Sunday, the most high-profile graft case in the world's largest gambling hub in a decade.

The Commission Against Corruption said in a statement on its website on Saturday that it had initiated a criminal investigation into a case involving "former leadership staff of the Public Prosecutions Office" (PPO) who received illicit gains of 44 million patacas (S$7.7 million) from public work contracts worth more than 167 million patacas.