The military regime’s instances against Aung San Suu Kyi were proceeding according to legislation, the junta chief said.
He also reported the case of South Korean president Park Geun-hye who “was also sentenced based on the law” for data corruption in 2018.
Park was afterwards pardoned and launched.
Other fees against Aung San Suu Kyi consist of seven counts associated with corruption, breaking electoral law and breaking the colonial-era standard secrets law : for which she is co-accused with detained Aussie economist Sean Turnell.
Both address 15 years in jail if found guilty on that charge.
There was enough evidence against Turnell for a “serious conviction”, Min Aung Hlaing said.
The junta could be lenient if the Australian government “acted positively”, he said, without providing details.
In July, the junta spokesman informed AFP it was “not impossible” that the regime would enter into dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi to solve the turmoil sparked by the military’s power-grab last year.
STALLED DIPLOMACY
Aung San Suu Kyi remains an adored figure locally on her courageous opposition to a previous junta, in spite of her international popularity suffering after regulating in a power-sharing deal with the generals whenever she won polls in 2015.
But many of those currently embroiled in combating with the military possess said the motion must go beyond what the Nobel laureate led decades back.
Dissidents these days – including so-called “People’s Defence Forces” that have sprung up to fight junta makes – say the particular goal now is in order to permanently root away military dominance from the country’s politics and economy.
Diplomatic efforts by the 10-country bloc Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – of which Myanmar is a member – have so far failed to halt the bloodshed.