<span style="color: #222222;">A Myanmar court on Wednesday sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a corruption case to five years in jail after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her, reports Reuters.<br />''<br />''The charge relates to allegations that Suu Kyi accepted 11.4 kg of gold and cash payments worth USD 6 lakh from her protege turned accuser Phyo Min Thein who was the chief minister of the city of Yangon.<br />''<br />''Earlier, in December last year and January this year she was handed over six years of jail term for breaking a telecommunication law relating to the import of equipment, breaching COVID 19  law and incitement against the military.<br />''<br />''The 76 year old Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with at least 18 offences which carry a combined maximum jail term of 190 years, if convicted.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Suu Kyi had denied the charges and called the allegations "absurd". It was not immediately clear if Suu Kyi would be transferred to a prison. She has been held in an undisclosed location, where junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said she could remain there after earlier guilty verdicts in other cases.<br />''<br />''The international community has dismissed the trials as farcical and has demanded her immediate release. Any spokesman for the junta was not immediately available for comment.</span><br />