PHUKET: A contentious Phuket land title, one of many in dispute around the border of a Phuket national park, has been given the all-clear, a senior investigator said today.
The Director of Sirinath National Park, Cheewapab Cheewatam, told Phuketwan that a land title associated with the Imperial Adamas Beach Resort Phuket had been found to be genuine.
''A second title associated with the resort is not in dispute with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation,'' Khun Cheewapab said. ''but the Forest Department is still looking at it.''
A spokesperson for the resort declined to comment this afternoon.
The probe on the Imperial Adamas property is the first of 11 National Parks investigations to be resolved after being forwarded to Bangkok by investigators on Phuket.
Khun Cheewapab was in Bangkok today to report to the parliamentary Land Environment and Natural Resources Commission.
He said that tomorrow, another 366 investigation ''folios'' would be examined, with investigating teams chosen for each of them by lottery. None of the investigation teams are from Phuket.
The investigation teams for those 366 land plots are ready to go to Phuket to begin work, but the projects were ''more sensitive'' because there had been no developments on those properties as yet.
Khun Cheewapab said that 10 more of the 12 original Phuket projects bordering the Phuket national park were being looked at carefully by lawyers at National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation headquarters in Bangkok.
Three additional projects - Malaiwana Villas and Residences, Istana Phuket and a villa allegedly belonging to Frenchman Bernard Gauthier - were awaiting the results of a detailed examination of satellite photographs by the only expert in Thailand qualified to examine them.
Once the reports on the 10 projects being looked at in Bangkok were complete, copies of the findings would go to Phuket Provincial Court, to the Land Titles Office in Bangkok, the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Department of Special Investigation.
''To be precise, the process will take many months. The final outcome of proceedings against wrong-doers could take as long as 10 or 20 years,'' Khun Cheewapab said.
The Director of Sirinath National Park, Cheewapab Cheewatam, told Phuketwan that a land title associated with the Imperial Adamas Beach Resort Phuket had been found to be genuine.
''A second title associated with the resort is not in dispute with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation,'' Khun Cheewapab said. ''but the Forest Department is still looking at it.''
A spokesperson for the resort declined to comment this afternoon.
The probe on the Imperial Adamas property is the first of 11 National Parks investigations to be resolved after being forwarded to Bangkok by investigators on Phuket.
Khun Cheewapab was in Bangkok today to report to the parliamentary Land Environment and Natural Resources Commission.
He said that tomorrow, another 366 investigation ''folios'' would be examined, with investigating teams chosen for each of them by lottery. None of the investigation teams are from Phuket.
The investigation teams for those 366 land plots are ready to go to Phuket to begin work, but the projects were ''more sensitive'' because there had been no developments on those properties as yet.
Khun Cheewapab said that 10 more of the 12 original Phuket projects bordering the Phuket national park were being looked at carefully by lawyers at National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation headquarters in Bangkok.
Three additional projects - Malaiwana Villas and Residences, Istana Phuket and a villa allegedly belonging to Frenchman Bernard Gauthier - were awaiting the results of a detailed examination of satellite photographs by the only expert in Thailand qualified to examine them.
Once the reports on the 10 projects being looked at in Bangkok were complete, copies of the findings would go to Phuket Provincial Court, to the Land Titles Office in Bangkok, the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Department of Special Investigation.
''To be precise, the process will take many months. The final outcome of proceedings against wrong-doers could take as long as 10 or 20 years,'' Khun Cheewapab said.
" The final outcome of proceeding against wrong-doers could take as long as 10 or 20 years, Khun Cheewapab said." Gee wizz what a waste of time and manpower on something that will never be resolved in 10 to 20 years. Hardly worth the effort is it now?
Posted by Robin on October 9, 2012 13:13
Editor Comment:
Bored by the pursuit of justice, Robin? Got your sights on a slice of national park?