Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun said the military council would hold an election and hand power to the winning party. - AFP
MYANMAR (Reuters): Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted illegal payments worth US$600,000 plus gold while in government, a junta spokesman said on Thursday (March 11).
Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun added that the information had been verified, and that President Win Myint, plus several Cabinet ministers, had also engaged in corruption and the President had pressured the country’s election commission not to act on the military’s reports of irregularities.
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