New Delhi: The Supreme Court of Myanmar has rejected incarcerated leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeals in six cases of corruption stacked up against her by the military junta after taking her into custody by toppling her government in February 2021, says news reports.

According to The Irrawaddy, while four of these cases were related to Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a charity organisation run by 78-year-old Suu Kyi after her mother, the rest of the two cases accuse her of receiving $550,000 from Maung Weik, a Myanmarese tycoon who was among the first pro-Suu Kyi businessman to be jailed by the Junta on the charge of paying bribes to her when she was in power.

In June, Maung Weik was released from jail and he has now become the prosecution’s witness in the corruption cases against the jailed pro-democracy leader. As per news reports, soon after his release, he donated money to the construction of a Buddha statue by junta’s topmost leader Min Aung Hlaing.

Suu Kyi is facing 27 years in prison on the basis of multiple cases; she denies all charges and has been filing appeals in the pro-junta Supreme Court of the country. According to a Reuters report, a junta spokesperson didn’t answer its calls on the SC’s latest rejection of her appeals. In August, the court had rejected five appeals against charges of sedition, violating Covid-19 restrictions and importing walkie-talkies illegally.

The military dictatorship has recently curtailed six years from her cumulative prison sentence as an official pardon which her family categorically said it meant nothing.

The Wire has sought a response from the Myanmarese government in exile on these continued rejections of her appeals by the court; the article will be updated if and when it is received.

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