Maung Ko

In this Burmese name, the given name is Maung Ko. There is no family name.
Thiri Pyanchi
Maung Ko
မောင်ကို
Member of State Administration Council
In office
1 February 2023 – 2 August 2023
3rd Chief Minister of Mandalay Region
In office
1 August 2021 – 1 February 2023
Preceded byHimself (chairman of RAC)
Succeeded byMyo Aung
Chairman of Mandalay Region Administration Council
In office
2 February 2021 – 1 August 2021
Preceded byZaw Myint Maung (chief minister)
Succeeded byHimself (chief minister)
Personal details
Awards

Maung Ko is a former member of State Administration Council of Myanmar.[2] He has also been a former chief minister of Mandalay Region. He has served as chairman of Mandalay Region Administration Council, sub-council of State Administration Council, from 2 February 2021 to 1 August 2021. He is also a patron of the Mandalay Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MRCCI).[3]

Political career

He was appointed the chairman of Mandalay Region Administration Council by SAC Chairman Min Aung Hlaing. On 1 August 2021, the State and Region Administration Councils were dissolved and the State and Region Governments were reformed. Maung Ko was appointed the head of Mandalay Region Government and became the 3rd Chief Minister of Mandalay Region.[4][5]

US sanctions

On 10 December 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury added Maung Ko to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. Individuals on the list have their assets blocked and U.S. citizens are generally prohibited from doing business with them.[6]

References

  1. ^ "မြန်မာ့အလင်းသတင်းစာ (၁၈.၁၁.၂၀၂၂)".
  2. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၅ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၄ ခုနှစ်၊ တပို့တွဲလဆန်း ၁၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်) နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း".
  3. ^ "U Maung Ko, Chairman, Myanmar Federation of Mining Association (CEC): Interview".
  4. ^ "တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဝင်များ ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း".
  5. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၅၈ / ၂၀၂၁ ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဝါဆိုလပြည့်ကျော် ၉ ရက် (၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ ၁ ရက်) တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်များ ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း".
  6. ^ "Global Magnitsky Designations; North Korea Designations; Burma-related Designations; Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List Update". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2021-12-10.