At the meeting yesterday (October 1), presided over by Acting Governor Sommai Preechsilpa, the Chief of the Sirinart Marine National Park (SMNP), Cheewapap Cheewatham, said that complaints had been lodged with the police over 11 of the land plots investigated.
One more piece of land, the site of the Imperial Adamas Resort, was found to be outside the park, but in a designated forest, and that case was passed on to the Royal Forestry Department.
Three more – a private villa owned by Frenchman Bernard Gaulthier and the land on which the Malaiwana and Istana projects are being built – are still under investigation, with interpretation of aerial photographs currently being carried out.
He said the 11 “proven” cases have already been sent to the DNP’s department of legal affairs which put together the cases and then forwarded them to the Phuket Attorney General. He has already sent them on to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Land Department for action.
Investigation of another 366 land plots will be carried out by 366 teams established by Damrong Pidech, director general of the DNP, just before his retirement at the end of September.
Most of those pieces of land, Mr Cheewapap said, are still forested and most are small, though 10 parcels range between 70 and 80 rai each. “The rest are smaller, about 10-20 rai each,” he said.
Judging from the aerial photographs, he said, about 80 per cent of the 366 plots do not match with the Sor Kor 1 land papers on which their upgrades to Nor Sor 3 or Chanote were based.