The controversial double standard applied by Senior General Than Shwe over the Maung Weik-Aung Zaw Ye Myint drug scandal has caused tension among the junta’s top generals which in turn has prompted panic-stricken customers to withdraw their bank deposits, Chai Sayam reports from the border.
The bank in question is the Kambawza Bank owned by Aung Ko Win, better known as Saya Kyaung, one of the two godsons of Deputy Senior Maung Aye, the junta’s #2 man, who has reportedly been in bitter dispute with Than Shwe, w
hen the latter had taken swift and decisive action against business tycoon Maung Weik in connection with drugs but letting off Aung Zaw Ye Myint, Maung Weik’s colleague, a son of Lt-Gen Ye Myint, easily by sending him off to a drug treatment center.
“People are in panic,” said a trader in Rangoon. “They are afraid the next guy to be axed may be Maung Aye. If he falls, so will all his business interests.”
According to Mizzima News, upon learning his favorite grandson Nay Shwe Thwe Aung was addicted to Ecstasy, known in Thailand as Ya E and headshaker, the senior general flew into a rage and ordered the crackdown. The first suspect to be taken into custody was Aung Zaw Ye Myint, on 29 May. Two days later, Maung Weik, 35, managing director of Maung Weik and Family Co.Ltd, was arrested. The trial of Maung Weik and 6 others, including a Malaysian national, began on 14 July. Meanwhile, Aung Zaw Ye Myint, whose involvement had cost his father his job as a powerful overseer of three regional commands, had returned from Wettikan, where his addiction was treated, to his Rangoon home, reported Mizzima.
“Everybody who has a gun is involved,” a Palaung leader was quoted as saying by Bangkok Post.
Sources:: Shan Land, Mizzima
The bank in question is the Kambawza Bank owned by Aung Ko Win, better known as Saya Kyaung, one of the two godsons of Deputy Senior Maung Aye, the junta’s #2 man, who has reportedly been in bitter dispute with Than Shwe, w
hen the latter had taken swift and decisive action against business tycoon Maung Weik in connection with drugs but letting off Aung Zaw Ye Myint, Maung Weik’s colleague, a son of Lt-Gen Ye Myint, easily by sending him off to a drug treatment center.“People are in panic,” said a trader in Rangoon. “They are afraid the next guy to be axed may be Maung Aye. If he falls, so will all his business interests.”
According to Mizzima News, upon learning his favorite grandson Nay Shwe Thwe Aung was addicted to Ecstasy, known in Thailand as Ya E and headshaker, the senior general flew into a rage and ordered the crackdown. The first suspect to be taken into custody was Aung Zaw Ye Myint, on 29 May. Two days later, Maung Weik, 35, managing director of Maung Weik and Family Co.Ltd, was arrested. The trial of Maung Weik and 6 others, including a Malaysian national, began on 14 July. Meanwhile, Aung Zaw Ye Myint, whose involvement had cost his father his job as a powerful overseer of three regional commands, had returned from Wettikan, where his addiction was treated, to his Rangoon home, reported Mizzima.
“Everybody who has a gun is involved,” a Palaung leader was quoted as saying by Bangkok Post.
Sources:: Shan Land, Mizzima
