Myanmar Military Junta "Aung San Suu Kyi Corruption Charges... Illegal Receipt of 600 Million Won"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim On-yu] The Myanmar military has finally accused State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption charges, including illegal receipt of salary.

Major General Zaw Min Tun, spokesperson for the Myanmar military regime, claimed on the 11th that Suu Kyi illegally received a salary of $600,000 (approximately 610 million KRW) while working in the government. He also added that Suu Kyi received gold in addition to this. He emphasized that these criminal facts were confirmed by those who interrogated her.

The corruption charges appear to be the most severe among the criminal accusations so far leveled against Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest since the coup on the 1st of last month, was charged with possession and use of illegally imported walkie-talkies (violation of import-export law) and violating COVID-19 prevention rules during the general election process in November last year (violation of natural disaster law). Earlier this month, she was also charged with incitement and violation of the telecommunications law.

If found guilty of these four charges alone, she could face a maximum prison sentence of nine years.

Meanwhile, Major General Zaw Min Tun claimed that President Win Myint, along with other cabinet members, was also involved in corruption charges and that he ordered pressure on the Union Election Commission to ignore the military's report on election fraud in the November general election last year.

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