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Dr Set Aung, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry under Myanmar’s ousted National League for Democracy-led government, was released from Yamethin Prison, Mandalay Region, on 2 June, according to sources close to the prison. 

“He was released this morning. He is healthy. He was released after completing his entire prison sentence,” said a source close to the prison. 

After the military coup, he, along with the Nobel Peace Laureate and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, her economic advisor Dr. Sean Turnell, an Australian professor, Minister of the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry Soe Win, and former Minister Kyaw Win, were charged under Article 3(1) (c) of the Official Secrets Act.

All five of them were sentenced to three years in prison each for the aforementioned charge by the special court located in Naypyidaw Prison.

Presently, all individuals involved in that case, except Aung San Suu Kyi, have been released.  

The now-released Dr Set Aung also served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar until July 2017, and was an economic policy advisor to President Thein Sein from April 2011 to June 2012.

Dr. Sean Turnell was released and deported in late 2022.