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MANDALAY DIVISION – According to the close acquaintances to the prison, Sai Kham Maung, the warden of the industrial workshop in Obo prison (Mandalay), conspired with the head of the custody and extorted one lakh from each political prisoner saying that they will be transferred from the workshop to the work sites.
Moreover, the supervisor of the workshop Ye Wint Maung extorted between 50 thousand MMK and 80 thousand MMK from the political prisoners and the convicted youths for various reasons.
He (the supervisor) has reportedly got more than 6 million MMK from the extortion and he used 14 lakhs of that to do business, selling groceries to the prisoners. And he deposited the rest of the money to the employee welfare fund. The warden Sai Kham Maung withdrew from that fund by colluding with the employee welfare staff.
The close acquaintances continued that warden Sai Kham Maung also extorted 50 thousand MMK from each prisoners for various reasons, such as to buy settee for his home and to change his phone.