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Bureau of Special Investigation

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Bureau of Special Investigation
အထူးစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးဦးစီးဌာန
Agency overview
Formed1951; 73 years ago (1951)
TypeBureau
Jurisdiction Myanmar
HeadquartersNaypyidaw
Agency executive
  • Maung Maung Kyaw, Director General
Parent agencyMinistry of Home Affairs
Websitebsi.gov.mm

The Bureau of Special Investigation (Burmese: အထူးစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးဦးစီးဌာန; BSI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. BSI is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar).[1] The bureau has authority to investigate legal offences, including financial crimes, such as inappropriate trading, tax evasion, and government officer corruption allegations.[1] The Director General of BSI is U Maung Maung Kyaw. Its headquarters is in Naypyidaw.

History

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In 1951, the Special Investigation Administrative Board was formed under the direct supervision of the Prime Minister with 315 number of staff in accordance with "The Bureau of Special Investigation Act".[2] In 1963, it was renamed as Bureau of Special Investigation under the administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs.[3]

BSI operates for many laws. These include, but are not limited to —

  1. Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1948
  2. Essential services and Supply Act 1947
  3. Public Properties protection Act 1947
  4. Anti-Corruption Act 1948
  5. Export and Import Supervision (temporary) Act 1948

Organisational structure

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The structure of BSI is:

    • Headquarter
    • Administration Division
      • Administration
      • Account
      • Training
    • Law & Prosecution Division
      • Law
      • Prosecution
    • Information Technology Division
      • Information Network
      • Cyber Crime
    • Investigation & Financial Division
      • Investigation
      • Financial
      • International Affair
    • Crime Division
      • Upper Myanmar
      • Lower Myanmar
    • Inspection Division
      • Inspection
      • Complain
      • Record
    • Regions and States (14)
    • Nay Pyi Taw (Union Territory)(1)[4]

Duties and functions

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  1. Scrutinizing work
  2. Investigation
  3. Submitting legal opinion on cases
  4. Sending up to the court and prosecution
  5. Collecting and submitting intelligence
  6. To co-operate for the peace and tranquility of the State and rule of law.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)" (PDF). Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  2. ^ "အထူးစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှုအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့နှင့် အထူးစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးဌာန အက်ဥပဒေ". Constitutional Tribunal of The Union of Myanmar. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Historical Background". The Republic of the Union of Myanmar: Anti-corruption Commission. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019.
  4. ^ "BSI Biography". Ministry of Home Affairs.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Duties and Functions of The Bureau of Special Investigation". Ministry of Home Affairs.[permanent dead link]
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