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MYANMAR (Reuters): Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted illegal payments worth $ 600,000 plus gold while in government, a board spokesperson said on Thursday (March 11).
Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun added that the information had been verified and that President Win Myint, in addition to several cabinet ministers, had also engaged in acts of corruption and the president had pressured the country’s electoral commission not to act on reports of irregularities from the military.
The accusations were the strongest yet by the military since it toppled the country’s top leaders on February 1. They remain under house arrest.
At the conference, it was also said that Myanmar’s ruling military council will control the country only for a certain period of time, before holding an election and handing over power to the winning party.
Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun mentioned that Myanmar’s military was helping more than 1,000 of its citizens, who he said were in trouble in Malaysia, by facilitating their return recently.
He was referring to a recent mass deportation that human rights groups had tried to block due to concerns about his well-being.
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