U Ye Min Oo, former Deputy Mayor of Nay Pyi Taw, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for six corruption cases, according to sources related to the cases.
Under the National League for Democracy government, he served as Yangon Region minister for planning and finance, deputy mayor of Nay Pyi Taw and chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Development Bank.
The special court in Nay Pyi Taw Prison sentenced U Ye Min Oo to 15 years in jail for five corruption cases on June 20. All those cases are related to the loan issues when he served as chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Development Bank.
The court also passed him a three-year prison sentence on June 22 for another corruption case in which he and former Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman Dr Myo Aung were charged.
Dr. Myo Aung, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Ye Min Oo are facing court trial after being charged with corruption for allocating 23.855 acres of land for a project implemented by the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation in Pobbathiri Township, Nay Pyi Taw.
U Ye Min Oo has also been charged under Section 409 of the Penal Code that can give life imprisonment or 10 years in prison.
According to the Anti-Corruption Commission, U Ye Min Oo and Dr Myo Aung have been charged under the anti-corruption law for losing over 390 million kyats due to land level adjustment work on 35 plots of land near Htantabin Monastery in Dakkhinathiri Township, Nay Pyi Taw that did not need to be done, for losing about 50 million kyats due to the sale of 0.75 acres of land on Moe Thauk Pan Road in Dakkhinathiri Township at 100 million kyats, which was given to a person to run a restaurant business, decided by the management meeting of the committee and for losing about 2,000 million kyats due to the sale of over five acres of land on the south side of Pyinmana-Taungnyo Road near the retired staff housing in Nay Pyi Taw Myoma Market to a company to open a shopping mall without being submitted to the President's Office, decided by the management meeting of the committee with 100 million kyats per acre for five acres of land.
