By The Associated Press

YANGON, Myanmar - Win Aung, foreign minister in Myanmar's military government in 1998-2004, has died in prison while serving a seven-year term for corruption.

Family members said he died early Wednesday in Yangon's Insein Prison, where he was sent after his conviction in 2006 for misuse of authority in connection with the sale of an imported car. He died of an age-related illness, said the relatives, who asked not to be named.

Win Aung had previously been a military intelligence colonel and ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was dismissed from his ministerial post in September 2004 with no reason publicly given.

He had been close to ex-Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt, who lost his own job in a political power struggle just a months afterward.