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| Type | Organization | [sources] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Directorate of Defence Industries | [sources] | |||
| Other name | Directorate for Defence Industries | [sources] | |||
| Legal form | not available | [sources] | |||
| Country | Myanmar (Burma) | [sources] | |||
| Description | Cooperation partner of the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID. KPe.001) in Myanmar. Receiver of illegal shipments of three cylindrical grinding machines and an LCR meter to Myanmar in 2008 as well as about two attempted shipments of an automatic direct current magnetization characteristic recorder to Myanmar via Malaysia in 2008 and 2009. According to a UN member state, the Directorate maintains a sophisticated global procurement network and that its Director, Tun Hlaing, had reportedly been involved in overseas procurements and was associated with at least two Singapore-based firms, Excellence Metal Casting and STE Global Trading Pte Ltd. It further indicated that Tun Hlaing may have previously been associated with Myanmar’s Excellence Mineral Manufacturing Co. Ltd, previously designated by a Member State for working with officials of the DPRK, to import materiel for military weapons programs. | [sources] | |||
| Status | not available | [sources] | |||
| Last changed | Last checked | First seen | |||
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Role | Start date | End date | |
| Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation | Cooperation partner | - | - | |
| Asia Metal Co. Ltd. | Asia Metal constructed buildings and supplied construction materials on a factory compound of the Directorate of Defense Industries | - | - | |
| Soe Min Htike Co. Ltd. | Soe Min Htike Company, Ltd " is a procurement agent for Myanmar’s Directorate of Defence Industries | - | - | |
| Members | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Role | Start date | End date | |
| Thein Htay | Chief | - | - | |
| Tun Hlaing | Director | - | - | |
| Kyaw Nyunt Oo | Member | - | - | |