DSI says powerful people interfering in Krabi land-deed corruption case

[webfact]

DSI says powerful people interfering in land-deed corruption case

By Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai 
The Nation

 

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has said local powerful people are behind a delay in revoking an illegal land deed involving forest lands in Krabi.

 

Saengrawee Bongkotmas filed a complaint with DSI on Thursday calling on the body to investigate delays in revoking an illegal land-deed registration for a forested area.

 

She said that community members were frustrated that there had been no obvious progress in the case and revocation of the land deed despite it having officially been proven illegal.

 

Saengrawee also alleged that the land owner was still publicly displaying signs advertising the illegal plots for sale at Bt30 million per rai.

 

She had been sued by the land owner in four separate cases for obstructing their effort to claim the land, she added.

The DSI’s Natural Resource and Environment Case Division chief agreed that their investigation concluded that the land deed registered for six plots of land totalling about 200 rai (32 hectares) of forest lands in Muang Krabi District since 2009 of forest lands was illegal.

 

Pol Lt-Colonel Montri Boonyayothin said that after the force handed the investigation over to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), there had not been any progress in the case.

 

Montrei said DSI would push the NACC to push forward the case. He said DSI believed local powerful people were applying their influence in the case, which would otherwise have already been revoked.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30329674

 

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[ChrisY1]

And let me guess......it's a bit sensitive for the DSI (FIB of Thailand...or so they say!) to actually do something constructive.....like get the influential person to go to jail?

[biggles45]

Is the land office official whose name is on the deeds and processed them, in custody?

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Pol Lt-Colonel Montri Boonyayothin said that after the force handed the investigation over to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), there had not been any progress in the case.

with connections to powerful people or investments in Krabi by any chance ? 

[Bob12345]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

She had been sued by the land owner in four separate cases for obstructing their effort to claim the land, she added

Thats how the Thai justice system works. No matter how many laws you break, you just sue everybody who points out your crimes.

 

In case they run out of money before you, you can continue what you were doing without further problems.

 

The scales in the hand of lady justice only measure how much money you can stack on it.

[Tchooptip]

 " the landowner was still publicly displaying signs advertising the illegal plots for sale at Bt30 million per rai." 

a little more 18 000 Baht for one single square meter? Must have a mistake somewhere...

[GOLDBUGGY]

They want Bt30 Million per Rai?

 

Hell! You can buy my place for half that amount and I will even throw in a house for free.

[lvr181]

Arrest and charge the 'powerful people' with obstruction of justice! Seize their assets pending the outcome of any future trial. Too hard to do?   S44 would work.

[Lupatria]

And the names of the powerful people fall under unwanted defamatory investigative journalism?

[Gandtee]

Let us hope she is taking her personal safety seriously. 

[Get Real]

Just do not allow them to interfere then. Problem solved. Actually it is that simple.

[xylophone]

6 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Just do not allow them to interfere then. Problem solved. Actually it is that simple.

Yeah right! Money talks in a society which is built on corrupt practices I'm afraid.

[fullcave]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Saengrawee also alleged that the land owner was still publicly displaying signs advertising the illegal plots for sale at Bt30 million per rai.

 

Do they have a case of fraud or are they just waiting to sell the land to some unsuspecting dupes and cash out before the "officials" confiscate the land and everybody goes on their merry way? 

[Hank Gunn]

On 10/19/2017 at 7:58 PM, RichardColeman said:

with connections to powerful people or investments in Krabi by any chance ? 

But Thaksin was corrupt! 

[retarius]

Whenever an 'influential' is involved the police etc never do anything because they always make out that it is so complicated and so and so hasn't done this (like the infamous weeks of waiting for the interpol request to be translated in the low energy search for the Red Bull heir) and they pretend to be following the law so precisely.

But when it is poor people the police just say they did it, no evidence needed; the judge reasons that the police never lie and so, despite no evidence he must have done it....next the jail sentence or worse in the case of the Koh Tao Burmese. It is truly shocking how they can continue to appear in public instead of burying themselves away in total shame.

[lvr181]

20 minutes ago, retarius said:

Whenever an 'influential' is involved the police etc never do anything because they always make out that it is so complicated and so and so hasn't done this (like the infamous weeks of waiting for the interpol request to be translated in the low energy search for the Red Bull heir) and they pretend to be following the law so precisely.

But when it is poor people the police just say they did it, no evidence needed; the judge reasons that the police never lie and so, despite no evidence he must have done it....next the jail sentence or worse in the case of the Koh Tao Burmese. It is truly shocking how they can continue to appear in public instead of burying themselves away in total shame.

" It is truly shocking how they can continue to appear in public instead of burying themselves away in total shame."  They have no shame, only a feeling of 'we are above the law' (useless but above the law)! There is no, or little integrity, accountablity or responsibility. Probably there are some good cops but they are few and far between, sadly.

[USPatriot]

Blocked until the the land is sold and houses are built......  then oh sorry

[impulse]

On 10/19/2017 at 4:13 PM, webfact said:

Saengrawee Bongkotmas filed a complaint with DSI on Thursday calling on the body to investigate delays in revoking an illegal land-deed registration for a forested area.

 

Should be a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks a registered land deed is a guaranty of legal ownership.

 

And one more example of why I think Thai laws against foreigners buying land are pretty humane.  Better to have 100 guys griping that they can't legally buy land, than 50 guys griping that they've been cheated out of their life savings on land swindles.

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by impulse