Kayah State ex-chief minister U L Phaung Sho and municipal and social affairs ex-minister Aung Kyaw Htay have been charged under the anti-corruption law, state-run newspapers reported quoting the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
According to the inspection of the complaints against them by the ACC, U L Phaung Sho and municipal and U Aung Kyaw Htay transferred a government-owned land plot (authorized by the government) worth more than Ks65 million in 2017 with the reason of achieving religious title conferred by the government and got the land back via donation. The Kayah State former chief minister received Ks11 million from the winning bidders of tenders for the construction of a two-story building with four rooms on each floor in Loilemlay and Nangmelkhon as the general administrative department staff housing in the 2018-2019FY, LED Board and Transformer of state Sports and Physical Education Department and a two-story staff housing with eight rooms on each floor for state Highways Department. He also took a bribe of Ks8.2 million from a company that won the tender of constructing the platform of Loikaw internal road in the 2019-2020FY, slab culvert and two-storey office building of the Agriculture Department.
In the 2018-2019FY, he did not follow Directive No 1/2017 of the President’s Office in inviting tender for the installation of electric lights in Kayah State government office and guesthouse and CCTV at Loikaw Airport. Therefore, it caused losses in revenue and the savings fund of the government. Kayah State former chief minister U L Phaung Sho and municipal and social affairs former minister U Aung Kyaw Htay were charged under Section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Law at the Loikaw Myoma police station on 27 February.
According to the further inspection, U L Phaung Sho used more than K234 million out of K311 million received from the rental of 18 Kayah State-owned heavy machinery vehicles, which were bought at Ks1,040 million of State budget through the tender system, without registering in the departmental financial data. Moreover, the arrangements are being made to take further action under the law for leasing Kayah State Day Ground, where Kayah State Day celebrated, to a company without inviting tender, according to the ACC.
