Myanmar’s Junta Punishes 2 Ex-NLD Ministers With More Jailtime 

By The Irrawaddy 23 December 2022

A junta courtroom in Naypyitaw Jail on Wednesday handed jail sentences of two years to former Yangon Area minister U Ye Min Oo and 18 months to former Union Authorities Workplace Minister U Min Thu on costs of breach of belief as public servants.

U Ye Min Oo served as chair of Naypyitaw growth, deputy Naypyitaw mayor and Yangon minister for planning and finance underneath the now-ousted Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD) authorities. He was elected to the regional meeting for Dagon Township in 2020 and was broadly tipped to change into Yangon Area’s chief minister.

U Ye Min Oo was detained in Yangon the day after the Feb. 1 coup final yr. He was reportedly tortured badly throughout junta interrogation.

He has now been sentenced to a complete of 25 years in jail. In June he was given 15 years on 5 counts after the regime accused him of corruption over loans issued to companies when he chaired the Naypyitaw Improvement Financial institution. He was handed eight extra years on different corruption costs associated to allocation of land to the Daw Khin Kyi Basis, a charity chaired by jailed State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

U Min Thu, a former army colonel, has now been sentenced to a complete seven years and 6 months.

The regime beforehand accused him of utilizing 67.5 million kyats (about US$37,800) from a enterprise proprietor to purchase NLD-logo shirts and baggage for the social gathering’s election marketing campaign in September 2020. He was given three years every for a corruption cost and abuse of energy throughout the 2020 election.

U Min Thu was appointed to the Naypyitaw Council after the NLD took workplace in early 2016 and have become deputy President’s Workplace minister in December of that yr. He was appointed minister for the Union Authorities Workplace in late 2018 to oversee the Basic Administration Division, the spine of the nation’s public administrative mechanism. He was among the many ex-military officers identified to be near Suu Kyi.

Breach of belief carries a most penalty of life imprisonment underneath the colonial-era penal code.

Subjects: Coup, crackdown, Democracy, Human Rights, junta, Justice, army in politics, army regime, Min Aung Hlaing, Nationwide League for Democracy, Political Prisoners, regime, Rule of Legislation, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi