The chief traffic officer at the Adelaide Traffic Department is one of the people in custody following a Hawks swoop on a syndicate involved in issuing fraudulent learner’s and driver’s licences in the Eastern Cape. Ricardo Du Plooy‚ 46‚ was arrested on Tuesday along with “Loyiso Goba‚ 43‚ a traffic officer responsible for eye-testing at the same department; Jolene Freda Ntshiza‚ a 38-year-old learner’s and driver’s licence examiner; as well as Sivuyile Tsiti‚ who works for Ace Driving School in the area”.The owner of that driving school‚ Vuyisile Mnyani‚ 48‚ who is said to be an ex-traffic officer‚ was arrested on the same day in Alexandria.Du Plooy‚ Goba and Tsiti were remanded in custody after brief appearances at the Bedford Magistrate’s court on Tuesday‚ and were expected back in the dock again on Wednesday.Mnyani was released on R6,000 bail‚ while Ntshiza got R1,000 bail.The Hawks said in as statement that its investigation started in March 2014 and the “traffic officials have allegedly been involved in the issuing of fraudulent learner’s and driver’s licences at a cost of R6,000 each”.“The driving school owner would work as a middleman in that he would recruit customers for the officers‚” it said.“The driving school was used to disguise the illegal activities as they did not teach their students how to drive‚ but arrange for them fraudulent documents at a cost.”The Hawks said another suspect managed to evade arrest on Tuesday...