Myanmar: Ousted chief minister of Karen State hit with 75-year prison sentence

NAYPYITAW, 10 November 2021, (TON): A judge sentenced Karen State’s ousted chief minister Nang Khin Htwe Myint to 75 years in prison on Tuesday for five separate counts of corruption, her lawyer said.

Lawyer Aung Thein said that that 67-year-old, who like many top National League for Democracy (NLD) figures was detained in the early hours of February 1 as the military staged its coup, got 15 years for each corruption charge.

Also sentenced on Tuesday was Karen’s ousted state finance minister Than Naing, 65. He was given a 90-year prison term for six corruption offences.

Aung Thein, who represented both defendants said “it was the maximum term,”

Both the chief minister and the minister had already expected this, so they were more or less unfazed by their sentences.

Nang Khin Htwe Myint was accused of breaching Section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Law by, among other things, using state funds to pay her medical bills and moving money meant for a development project to a private bank account. 

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