CNI News
1 July 2023
U Zaw Zaw, a well-known businessman and U Maung Weik, owner of Sae Paing construction company made cash donations for bulding the Mara Vijaya Buddha Image reportedly.
The ceremony of clarifying the conditions relating to the completion of the Mara Vijaya Buddha Image that would be the largest and highest carved marble sitting Buddha Image among carved marble sitting Buddha images in the world was held on 29th June 2023.
Over 100 businesspeople including U Zaw Zaw and U Maung Weik attended the ceremony and made cash donations.The total donation of 101 donors was 16177 million kyats (16.177 billion kyats) reportedly.
Maung Weik was making a cash donation for the Mara Vijaya Buddha Image on 29th June 2023.
Maung Weik was arrested soon after the Tatmadaw toppled down the NLD government led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, having said that NLD tried to form a government without solving the ballot dispute in the 2020 general election.
Maung Weik was arrested on charges that he bribed DASSK and Dr.Zaw Myint Maung and was released in June 2023.
U Zaw Zaw who had disappeared from public view since the Tatmadaw took power first came out in public while he was visiting Suwanna football stadium with Sr.Gen Min Aung Hlaing, chairman of the SAC. After that, he showed up in public again at the ceremony on 29th June 2023.
