The request to revoke the NorSor 3 title deed was filed on Thursday by the chief of the Phuket Land Office, and is pending approval from the Land Department.
Charnwit Kitlerdsiriwattana, the 65-year-old Managing Director of Phukhaohokluk Co Ltd – the company who staked claim to 24 rai (3.84 hectares) believed to have been purchased for about B40 million two years ago – staged a press conference yesterday afternoon at the Phuket Reorter’s Club meeting room at Provincial Hall, where he presented what he identified as aerial imagery evidence taken of Naka Noi in 1967.
“This is evidence that benefits of the land were used [in accordance] with the SorKor 1 and NorSor 3 Kor title deeds, through the original owners of the Chorthip family name," pointing at the printed copy.
“The [SorKor 1] was not a flying title deed as reported, and be assured it’s not in the boundaries of any national forest. Taxes have been paid on the land for 20-30 years,” he insisted.
“I’ve submitted the evidence to the director-general of the Land Department, and have appealed for fairness from the Fourth Army Region, who are presiding over land reforms in 14 Southern Thai provinces.
“We have not been treated fairly by the Phuket Land Office, nor the DSI in their investigation," he concluded.