Assets belonging to the youngsters of Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing have been found in a Bangkok condominium. Documents were discovered throughout a September raid on the condo of a Myanmar arms vendor charged with drug trafficking and cash laundering.
According to Bangkok Post, the property present in Bangkok at the residence of Tun Min Latt when he was arrested final September, belonged to grownup youngsters of Myanmar’s junta leader. Class full was arrested along with three Thai nationals on narcotics and money laundering expenses.
Tun has interests in motels, energy and mining, and is a close affiliate of Min Aung Hlaing, who seized power in February 2021. According to Bangkok Post, he has procured provides for the military.
Min Aung Hlaing’s two youngsters are to face no authorized action over the assets. Authorities do not consider them related to the investigation against Tun Min Latt. Based on the seizure data, Justice for Myanmar (JFM), a covert activist group tracking the junta’s companies, mentioned that among the gadgets confiscated from the arms broker had been the title deeds to a four-bedroom apartment belonging to Min Aung Hlaing’s son Aung Pyae Sone, worth nearly US$1 million (33 million baht). Two Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) financial institution books in the identify of Khin Thiri Thet Mon had been also discovered.
Index and Min Aung Hlaing’s daughter, Khin Thiri Thet Mon, has been previously sanctioned by the United States and Canada and couldn’t be reached for remark.
Justice for Myanmar urged the Thai authorities to take “urgent action to forestall it from becoming a protected haven for Myanmar struggle criminals by blocking the illegitimate Myanmar junta and its members from accessing Thai banks and property, and freezing stolen belongings that belong to the people of Myanmar.”
Since the coup, Min Aung Hlaing’s forces launched a bloody crackdown on dissent, killing hundreds of opponents, in accordance with the United Nations, which accuses Myanmar’s troops of struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity. The navy says it’s waging a war on “terrorists.”
Thailand shares a land border of greater than 2,000 kilometres with Myanmar and has refrained from overt criticism of the junta.
Last month, Bangkok invited junta ministers to attend a regional summit, which was boycotted by several nations due to their presence..