Myanmar Coup: New Corruption Charges Against Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar Coup: New Corruption Charges Against Aung San Suu Kyi

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Myanmar’s military junta has filed another corruption complaint against ousted government leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Her lawyer announced this on Tuesday. So there are already a whole series of complaints against her, for which she risks more than ten years in prison.

 

Since the coup in early February, 76-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest. She is alleged to have broken a colonial-era state secrets law and accepted more than half a million dollars and a dozen kilos of gold as bribes. She is now being charged with corruption on four other counts, says lawyer Khin Maung Zaw.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers have yet to see “the first information reports and documents.” The charges are said to revolve around corruption. Furthermore, we know that two allegations were also made against Min Thu, a former minister in her government. That’s what lawyer Min Min Soe told Reuters news agency.

The new charges will be heard in a court in Mandalay city starting July 22. As a result, the former Nobel Prize winner is now on trial in no fewer than three Myanmar cities: Mandalay, Yangon and the capital Naypyitaw. In the latter, Tuesday’s session was adjourned.

At this point, her legal team is dismissing all charges. However, chief attorney Khin Maung Zaw has said a cross-examination of a witness to the prosecution revealed that the raid on the former leader’s home had been carried out without a warrant and thus would have been illegal.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her party won the elections by force majeure in November 2020. The army’s party lost many seats, after which the army leadership quickly came forward with accusations of fraud. However, this has never been proven, yet the army staged a military coup on February 2 of this year.

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