Aung Ko was born on 4 January 1948 to Ba Zan and Tin Shwe in Kyaukpadaung Township, Mandalay Division, Burma (now Myanmar).

[3] A former Brigadier-General,[1] Aung Ko was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Union Solidarity and Development Association from 1997.

He pledged to "wipe out" the problem of biased judges who followed verbal orders from their superiors and "held back democracy".

The article says that "U Aung Ko has tried to take action against U Wirathu, a leading member of Ma Ba Tha, an extremist Buddhist monk group accused of hate speech against Muslims."

[16] After the 2015 election he reportedly resigned from the USDP and was said to be "close" to Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the victorious NLD.

[18] Aung Ko was one of the key players in disbanding the Ma Ba Tha, an ultra nationalist Buddhist organisation, which frequently supported the military and set out, at an interfaith occasion held in January 2020, the reason why elusive nationalists such as Wirathu could not be arrested was that the elected civilian government did not command the police force which is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is under control of the military.

[19] After the military takeover, on 5 March 2021 he was indicted on charges of corruption; giving religious titles to individuals in exchange for bribes.