June 07, 2020

THE Anti-Corruption Commission has taken legal actions against two forest officers as they misused authority to abstract certain amount of cash from the reforestation funds.
Assistant Director U Ngwe Soe Oo from Yamethin District Forest Department (now the Director Office of Mandalay Region of the same department) and Yamethin Township Forest Officer U Aung Kyaw Htwe took out cash as a bribery from the funds of Myanmar Reforestation and Rehabilitation Programme in allocating budgets to respective areas through foresters. The former received K6.1502 million from six foresters, and the latter K3.767 million from four foresters.
The ACC conducted investigations on these cases transferred by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation after the Corruption Prevention Unit of the ministry carried out enquiries.
The cases have been filed as the first information report at the Yamethin Police Station on 5 June 2020 for further legal proceedings in accordance with the Section 56 of Anti-Corruption Law.—MNA
(Translated by Aung Khin)