Film director Mike Tee arrested

by Mizzima News

Tuesday, 09 September 2008 21:33

Burmese military junta authorities have arrested Burma's prominent film director Mike Tee for alleged drug abuse, sources said. Though he was said to have been arrested last week, his whereabouts are unknown. Popular film director Zinyaw Maung Muang told Mizzima, "I heard that Ko Mike Tee was arrested but I don't know anything. I don't know why he was arrested." According to an unconfirmed information from a source in the Ministry of Home Affairs, director Mike Tee was found with narcotic tablets when he was arrested. Meanwhile, a source who claimed to have witnessed the arrest said the film director was in a shop in front of his residence buying betel nuts, when he was busted by plainclothes policemen. They forcibly took him away in a vehicle. The policemen, according to the eyewitness came in two vehicles. However, with the film director's mobile phone switched off and his family members not reachable, Mike Tee's arrest could not be independently verified. < Prev   Next >