{"id":29885,"date":"2021-03-18T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/myanmar-tycoon-claims-he-gave-aung-san-suu-kyi-bribes-as-junta-steps-up-attack"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:10:15","slug":"myanmar-tycoon-claims-he-gave-aung-san-suu-kyi-bribes-as-junta-steps-up-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29885","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar tycoon claims he gave Aung San Suu Kyi bribes as junta steps up attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maung Waik alleges on state TV that he gave ousted leader $500,000 in cash in what appears to be an attempt to discredit the civilian government <\/p>\n<p>A Myanmar construction magnate with links to the country\u2019s military rulers has claimed that he gave more than $500,000 in cash to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a broadcast on state television apparently aimed at discrediting the ousted civilian government.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by Maung Waik could pave the way for more serious charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained since the 1 February military takeover while security forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/yangon-becomes-battle-zone-as-myanmar-junta-enforces-martial-law\">increasingly use lethal force <\/a>against a popular uprising demanding the restoration of democratically elected leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/myanmar-tycoon-claims-he-gave-aung-san-suu-kyi-bribes-as-junta-steps-up-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maung Waik alleges on state TV that he gave ousted leader $500,000 in cash in what appears to be an attempt to discredit the civilian government A Myanmar construction magnate with links to the country\u2019s military rulers has claimed that he gave more th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[919,82,1906,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions\/29886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}