A COURT in Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi (pic) of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison in the first of several corruption cases against her.
Suu Kyi, who was ousted by an army takeover last year, had denied the allegation that she had accepted gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars given her as a bribe by a top political colleague.
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