Myanmar targets Aung San Suu Kyi with new corruption charges | Aung San Suu Kyi News

The citizen-elected leader has been under house arrest since the military took office and already holds several other charges.

Aung San Suu Kyi, who led Myanmar in February until the military took power in a coup, will face more corruption offenses a few days before he goes to formal trial.

Myanmar’s Global New Light of State has made new allegations a chain of other charges, Following an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission into the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation.

“They found him guilty of corruption using his level,” the paper says. “They were therefore indicted under section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Act.”

The commission has accused 75-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi of accepting $ 600,000 and gold from the former prime minister of Yangon region, and also made leases of land and property for the foundation, of which he is also president.

Several other officials have also pleaded guilty to corruption for issuing land use permits.

“Yesterday (Wednesday) the files were opened in the police houses of the respective municipalities,” the paper says.

Aung San Suu Kyi and his top government officials were arrested by the military on February 1 when army chief Min Aung Hlaing took power and plunged a country that was slowly advancing towards democracy into a long crisis.

The seizure of power by the generals has led to months of demonstrations and a massive civil disobedience movement, which has been met with force. More than 850 people have been killed in the crackdown, according to the Association of Political Prisoners Support, which has been monitoring the situation.

Aung San Suu Kyi has already been accused of putting on unlicensed walkie-talkies, making coronavirus restrictions, and violating the country’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act.

He is the same they will be tried on Monday.