Myanmar: Court hearings for fresh corruption charges against Suu Kyi to begin next month

NAYPYITAW, 18 September 2021, (TON): Suu Kyi’s lawyers have said “detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi will begin weekly court hearings for four corruption charges against her on October 1.”

The new charges, filed at the Mandalay Regional High Court, are the latest in a series of 11 offences the ousted State Counsellor has been accused of by the junta since her detention on February 1.

“The judge from the high court is coming to hear her case,” said Khin Maung Zaw, who heads Suu Kyi’s defence team.

He added that two of the corruption charges concern Suu Kyi alone, another involves two ministers from her government, and the fourth involves two members of the Naypyitaw council who served under the National League for Democracy (NLD).

The defence lawyers suggested the charges may relate to land ownership issues at the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a charity Suu Kyi founded in the name of her mother. But they cautioned that they had been unable to read the case files yet.

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