May Myat Noe urged to give sexual favours, pageant organiser reveals
Former beauty queen May Myat Noe was telling the truth when she alleged that the organising committee urged her to give sexual favours to some rich Korean businessmen, according to a fact-finding panel.
The panel, formed by the organiser of the Miss Asia World beauty pageant, revealed the finding in a press release yesterday.
The sixteen-year-old former beauty queen has earlier claimed that she was urged by the organising committee to sexually entertain some financial VIPs for the cost of the album production and her age was wrongly corrected from 15 to 18 after she was dethroned by her sponsor Lawrence Choi, also known as Choi Young Chul, on account of lying several times.
However, a fact-finding panel formed by Jung Won Young, chairperson of the Organising Committee for Miss Asia Pacific Supertalent of the World, has found out that her allegation was true.
In the press release, the organising committee stated that Choi Young Chul is the owner of the contents of the Supertalent of the World and representative of the News Networks Korea. He invites participants from abroad and sponsors some management business for beauty contest winners.
The fact-finding panel found that Choi Yung Chul's News Networks Korea, founded in June 2014, did not have any office or staff and used a motel or an internet cafe to create fraudulent contracts in both South Korea and abroad.
May Myat Noe had signed a contract with Choi's News Networks Korea and was invited to South Korea in August for recording and vocal training. On the first day of her arrival at a hotel in Seoul, he explained to her the schedules including attending reception for VIPs, according to the finding of the panel.
In addition, the panel revealed the fact that Choi committed misappropriation and embezzlement during the previous beauty contests. He was imprisoned for fraud in 2013 and was now on probation. He reportedly rejected the request for an interview from an MBC producer who wanted to know the truth about Miss Myanmar’s tiara and sexual entertainment.
The panel is unable to locate Choi at the moment as nobody knows his whereabouts even though “Miss Asia Pacific Supertalent of the World Season 5” is scheduled for December 19 in Seoul. Therefore, all the concerned organisers, sponsors, mass media, overseas participants, etc. are all at a loss, according to the press release.
The organising committee announced that its chairman will sue Choi Young Chul, CEO of the News Networks Korea, on behalf of all the damaged parties.
"I'm very happy that everyone knows the truth now. I'm carrying out my activities in the entertainment industry at the moment," said May Myat Noe.
She is currently filming "Nauk Hma Sa Ywei Ya Twat Par" direct-to-home video directed by filmmaker Thar Nyi.
