The plaintiff in detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s corruption case has been banned from reading statements while testifying against her in court, the judge said during a hearing on Friday.
The order came after Suu Kyi’s legal team submitted a complaint about the pre-written testimony from Ye Htut, an officer from the junta’s Anti-Corruption Commission who is pressing charges against the leader.
Judge Myint San, who is presiding over the case at a special court in the Naypyitaw Council compound, approved the request.
“The witness can no longer give statements by reading out pre-written documents,” a member of Suu Kyi’s legal team told Myanmar Now. “They will still be allowed to have notes containing numbers and dates.”
Suu Kyi is accused among other things of building a house on land owned by the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, the charity she founded in the name of her mother.
If found guilty, Suu Kyi could be sentenced to 14 years prison under Section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Law.
She is also accused under the same law of taking gold and cash as bribes from Phyo Min Thein, the former chief minister of Yangon Region. She was in good health during Friday’s hearing, her lawyers said.
The leader faces a total of 11 charges that could see her handed a decades-long sentence.
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