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Patong’s Ace 1 Condo developer given extended lease of life

Patong’s Ace 1 Condo developer given extended lease of life

PHUKET: People waiting for refunds from the developer of the Ace 1 Condominium project in Patong will have to wait further if they are to hold onto any chance of getting their money back following a meeting with the head of the national Consumer Protection Board (CPB) yesterday (June 15).


By Tanyaluk Sakoot

Tuesday 16 June 2015 07:56 PM


Ampon Wongsiri (center), secretary-general of the national Consumer Protection Board.

Ampon Wongsiri (center), secretary-general of the national Consumer Protection Board.

CPB secretary-general Ampon Wongsiri in Phuket on May 19 laid down a seven-day deadline for the developer, The Nine Property (Patong) Co, to deliver to Phuket Governor Nisit Jansomwong a written assurance of when and how the situation would be resolved.

“We don’t want just verbal promises. We need something on paper,” he said. (See story here.)

Yesterday (28 days later), however, Mr Ampon again met with the soured investors, who presented Mr Ampon with proof of the payments they had made.

Mr Ampon warned the condo developer that time was running out before the CPB handed over the customers’ complaints to the police for action, but said little else.

Present at the meeting to receive in person copies of the proof-of-payment documents was a representative of Ace 1 condo.

The representative declined to comment in detail about the stalled project to The Phuket News, but assured that the company would soon be meeting with Gov Nisit, who chairs the Provincial Consumer Protection Committee, to resolve the conflict.