BERLIN, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Germany suspects that scams at its embassies in Cairo and Moscow enabled hundreds of visa applicants to secure permits to enter Germany based on false documents, a magazine reported on Saturday.

Weekly Der Spiegel reported that German Foreign Ministry officials and federal police were examining 50,000 visa applications for irregularities in Cairo. So far they have uncovered 132 cases out of 10,000 checked so far.

The suspected culprits are six Egyptian employees of the German embassy in Cairo, the magazine said.

In Moscow, a single employee helped secure the issue of at least 153 visas based on false documents, Der Spiegel reported.

A German Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed that visa irregularities had been discovered at its embassies in Egypt and Russia and that the matter was being investigated. He declined to give any specifics about the irregularities. (Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Charles Dick)