On Wednesday, Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted civilian leader of Myanmar and Nobel laureate, was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to five years in jail, the news agency reported, citing sources.
A Myanmar junta court accused Aung San Suu Kyi of accepting a bribe of $600,000 in cash and gold bars.
The case was the first of eleven corruption charges against the 76-year-old leader, each carrying a maximum sentence of fifteen years in prison. Sources quoted by agencies declined to be identified because her trials were being held behind closed doors.
Journalists remained barred from attending the Court hearings, while Suu Kyi's counsels were have been banned from speaking to the media.
Since a military coup deposed her Govt in Feb 2021, plunging the country into major civil unrest, Suu Kyi had been facing a barrage of criminal cases that could see her jailed for decades.
She was already sentenced to 6 years in jail for incitement against the military, breaching Covid-19 rules and breaking a telecommunications law -- although she will remain under house arrest while she fights other charges.
More than 1,700 people have been killed and over 13,000 arrested in a crackdown on dissent since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.
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