He is charged with two counts under the country’s anti-corruption law, with each charge punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine. Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained since the military ousted her elected government in February 2021 and has not been seen or allowed to speak in public since. She is being held behind closed doors and her lawyers are unable to speak in public on her behalf or at her trial due to a silencing order given to them. He has already been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of illegal import and possession of a walkie-talkie, violation of coronavirus restrictions, insurgency and other allegations of corruption. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. However, widespread resistance to the military occupation has resulted in what some UN experts have described as a civil war, calling into question the military’s ability to govern. The start of the last trial of Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday was confirmed by a legal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to provide information. In the latter case, he is accused of receiving money in 2019 and 2020 from Maung Weik, a tycoon who had previously been convicted of drug trafficking. State-controlled military television showed a video last year in which Maung Weik claimed to have given cash payments to government ministers to help his businesses. Ye Htet, a member of the Anti-Corruption Commission who is the plaintiff in the case, testified in Monday’s proceedings, said the legal officer, who said that the payments made by Maung Weik in 2019 and 2020 are treated as separate categories. Global New Light of Myanmar, a state-controlled newspaper, reported in February official allegations that Aung San Suu Kyi in her position as state adviser – the country’s de facto chief executive – received $ 550,000 in four installments in 2019-2020. to facilitate the business activities of a private entrepreneur “. Maung Weik told state media last year that he gave the money from 2018 to 2020. He said in his video that the money included $ 100,000 given to Aung San Suu Kyi in 2018 for a charity named by her mother and also gave Aung San Suu Kyi $ 450,000 in payments from 2019 to 2020 for purposes she did not specify. Under the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, Maung Weik won a major development project involving the construction of houses, restaurants, hospitals, financial zones, ports and hotel areas in central Mandalay, Myanmar. Maung Weik, president of a real estate development company, was close to some of the generals in power during a previous military government. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2008 for drug trafficking and released in 2014 under a semi-democratic transitional government led by former generals. After his release, he returned to dealing with former generals. In all, Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with 12 counts of corruption. He was convicted last week of corruption and sentenced to five years in prison after receiving $ 600,000 and seven gold bars from Phyo Min Thein, the former prime minister of Yangon, the country’s largest city. Her lawyers are trying to overturn the verdict in an appeal to the Supreme Court for technical reasons, saying the case should not have been heard. If rejected, they can file another complaint.
