Narinjara News
Akyab, April 13
Former Arakan Nasaka
officers receive 60 to 150 year sentences
4/13/2005 An Arakan
State court in Akyab convicted and sentenced Bri-Gan Aung Ngwe, former a
commander in charge of Arakan state
Nasaka, to imprisonment for 67 years, on April 7, said a
lawyer from a state court of Akyab.
The court also sentenced the
Deputy Commander of Nasaka, Colonel Myint Oo, to 135 years imprisonment and another 3 Burmese
Muslim businessmen to 49 years imprisonment.
All those convicted were
arrested by the authority, along with a large number of Nasaka
officials in
The present military
government alleged that the accused were involved in a number of private
business sectors, using their power of authority in
Furthermore, Bri-Gan Aung Nwdge was accused
for several cases including his alleged involvement in a murder case in 1993. A
sergeant reportedly died in a car accident, but Aung Ngwe
insisted in court that he was killed by a wild elephant. The owner of the car
was his business partner.
Nasaka Deputy Commander, Colonel Myint
Oo, was accused by the authority of doing drug business and cooperating with
drug smugglers from eastern
The fate of more than 30
other intelligence and Nasaka officers is still
unknown, and they are detained in an Akyab central
jail, where they will surely face similar punishments as the Nasaka commander in the near future, said the lawyer.
On April 7, about 40 former
Military Intelligent Service ( MIS) officers,
including Brig-Gan Thein
Shwe and Brig-Gan Than Tun,
were sentenced to 20 to 200 years imprisonment by a special tribunal of the
notorious
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