Zaw Moe Than
Zaw Moe Than | |
|---|---|
ဇော်မိုးသန်း | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Myanmar |
| Occupation | Police officer |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | Myanmar Police Force |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
Brigadier General Zaw Moe Than (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; born Myanmar) is a Burmese senior police officer in the Myanmar Police Force, who gained national attention in 2020 following his conviction for sexual exploitation of female subordinates.[1][2]
Early life and education
Zaw Moe Than was born in Myanmar. Details about his early life and formal education are not publicly documented.[3]
Career
Allegations and investigation
In early 2020, allegations emerged that Zaw Moe Than had been demanding sexual favors from female subordinates in exchange for promotions and career advancement. At least eight officers formally reported the misconduct to the Ministry of Home Affairs, prompting an internal investigation.[4][5]
Trial and conviction
Zaw Moe Than was charged under the Myanmar Police Force Maintenance of Discipline Law, which prohibits misconduct and abuse of power by police personnel. The trial was conducted publicly and involved testimony from multiple victims as well as internal police investigators.[6][7]
On 3 July 2020, he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment. He was subsequently transferred to Yamethin Prison in Mandalay Region to serve his sentence.[8][9]
Aftermath
References
- ↑ Asia, Radio Free (2020-07-06). "Myanmar Police Official Sentenced in Sexual Harassment Case". https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/sexual-harassment-07062020180452.html. Retrieved 2025-10-22. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Myanmar Police Official Sentenced in Sexual Harassment Case". Radio Free Asia. 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ↑ Paing, May Sitt (2020-07-06). "Senior Myanmar Police Officer Jailed for Demanding Sex From Female Subordinates". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ↑ "Myanmar Police Official Sentenced in Sexual Harassment Case". Radio Free Asia. 6 July 2020.
- ↑ Zaw, Htet Naing (2019-10-07). "Myanmar Police Force Reshuffles Several Senior Positions". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ↑ "ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဇော်မိုးသန်းကို ပြစ်ဒဏ်ချမှတ်ပြီး ရမည်းသင်းထောင် ပို့ဆောင်". ရဲရာထူးခန့်ချုပ် ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဇော်မိုးသန်းကို ရဲစည်းကမ်းထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဥပဒေအရ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ချမှတ်ပြီး ရမည်းသင်းထောင် ပို့လိုက်ပြီလို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ ဒုတိယတပ်ဖွဲ့မှူး ရဲမှူးကြီးကျော်သီဟ DVB ကို အတည်ပြု…. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ↑ Myo, Thaw Zin (2020-06-28). "ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဇော်မိုးသန်း စိတ်ဝေဒနာကြောင့် လိင်အမြတ်ထုတ်ဆိုသည့် သတင်းမှားပျံ့နှံ့". Myanmar Now. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ↑ "Senior Myanmar Police Officer Jailed for Demanding Sex From Female Subordinates". The Irrawaddy. 6 July 2020.
- ↑ "ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဇော်မိုးသန်းအမှု ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီးကိုယ်တိုင် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ထံတင်ပြထား". ရဲရာထူးခန့်ချုပ် ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဇော်မိုးသန်းနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး အမှုဖြစ်စဉ်တွေကို ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီးကိုယ်တိုင် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့တာဝန်ရှိသူတွေထံ တင်ပြထားပြီးဖြစ်တယ်လို့ နိုင်ငံတော်အတိုင်ပင်ခံရုံး ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ်…. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
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