Revocation eyed

• LTO 11 probes questionable’ 300 driver licenses, says exec

THE regional office of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has started investigating about 300 driver licenses on whether these were acquired illegally or whether their holders skipped important processes during the application stage.

Thomas Edward Roales, cause there were certain “These licenses are chief law enforcer of processes that were not on hold because the cases the office, said upon initial complied with especially against their holders are database verification, these as these licenses were obbeing investigated,” he licenses were flagged be- tained from other regions. said.

Roales said if there were enough pieces of evidence showing that these licenses were illegally obtained, these might be revoked or that restrictions may be imposed.

The problem, he said, “these people would apply for licenses illegally in other regions and eventually file complaints with us (in case they meet problems with their licenses,” he said.

Also, since the agency( is allowed to flag down vehicles especially if they commit traffic violations, some of the drivers turned over licenses that when authenticity was verified with the database of the

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