Premchai probed for alleged encroachment

By The Nation

 

 

Embattled ITD president may resign as investigation of alleged poaching continues

 

POLICE WILL extend the investigation into a report that a construction tycoon accused of poaching has a resort-style house in Loei’s Phu Rua district to see whether it is situated in a national park or protected zone.

 

Pol Maj-General Panya Pinsuk, commander of the police’s Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression division, said officers had also been assigned to check if Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development (ITD), had houses in other areas.

 

 

He was responding to unconfirmed reports that Premchai’s house in Phu Rua was in a national park or protected forest.

 

Meanwhile, an ITD source said on Sunday that Premchai was considering stepping down as ITD president after being subjected to intense pressure related to accusations of illegal hunting.

 

Premchai, 63, and three others have been charged with poaching after being arrested at the World Heritage site Thung Yai Naresuan Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province last week.

 

 

Hunting rifles and ammunition as well as the carcasses of three protected wild animals, including an endangered black leopard, were found near their campsite.

 

The source said Premchai’s family, as well as ITD executives, were concerned about the reaction to the episode and feared that it would have a negative impact on the company. His family was said to have seriously considered the issue and sought the best solution for both Premchai and ITD.

 

They thought the only way to quell the public pressure was for Premchai to resign as ITD president to show that the issue was a personal matter and to distance the company from wrongdoing, the source added.

 

Social media users have lobbied for a widespread boycott of the firm.

 

Meanwhile, police said yesterday that Noppadon Prueksawan, a retired senior parks official and close aide to Premchai, would meet police in response to a summons on Thursday or Friday.

 

Noppadon

 

He was identified by Wildlife Conservation Bureau director Kanjana Nittaya as the person who had called her seeking permission for Premchai to visit the sanctuary for the purpose of “nature studies.”

 

Pol Colonel Suwat Inthasit, deputy commander of the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime division, said if he failed to turn himself in this week, a second summons would be issued.

 

Meanwhile, the National Legislative Assembly’s committee on natural resources and the environment told a press briefing that members would seek ways to increase punishments for poaching and other violations of wildlife and forestry laws.

 

The panel said they had invited Kanjana and Wichian Shinwong, the forest ranger chief who led the arrest of Premchai, to meet with them and explain how enforcement of the wildlife protection laws should be improved.

 

A panel member said punishment under the current laws was too light and that panel members had learned that the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry was in the process of reviewing the laws and penalties.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30338683

 

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" Premchai probed for alleged encroachment "

 

A high voltage probe hopefully !

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

A panel member said punishment under the current laws was too light and that panel members had learned that the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry was in the process of reviewing the laws and penaltie

All of a sudden poaching laws are ' too light ', tell that to the couple of got long prison term for

mushroom picking in the forest, meanwhile, the man with a taste for leopard's tail soup is nowhere

to be seen, maybe will next see his picture in London or China?....

Just maybe, somebody did not have as much power as he thought he had from start. 

Maybe another one the PM will have to extradite soon !

His brother is ready to bail him out

 

Edited February 12, 20188 yr by canuckamuck

2 hours ago, webfact said:

POLICE WILL extend the investigation into a report that a construction tycoon accused of poaching has a resort-style house in Loei’s Phu Rua district to see whether it is situated in a national park or protected zone.

This guy will help purify the elitist brand by showing we too are not above the law, and would give the government a much needed distractions if were not for those two shins gallivanting around China.  Anyway, hope they throw the book at this poacher. 

Is it mandatory that they turn into self serving a/holes as soon as they get very rich , or is that how that get rich in the first place  ? 

Boycott this Company !!

Let him loose and hunt him with big price on his head

 

Wanted wounded and suffering not yet dead

South Africa has animal protection beasts maybe give them free visa here

 

SOUTH AFRICAN LIONS EAT 'POACHER', LEAVING JUST HIS HEAD

PUBLISHED ON TUE, FEB 13, 2018 9:23 AM

South African lions eat 'poacher', leaving just his head

 

A suspected big cat poacher has been eaten by lions near the Kruger National Park in South Africa, police say.

 

The animals left little behind, but some body parts were found over the weekend at a game park near Hoedspruit.

 

"It seems the victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions," Limpopo police spokesman Moatshe Ngoepe told AFP.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43035474

4 hours ago, yellowboat said:

POLICE WILL extend the investigation into a report that a construction tycoon accused of poaching has a resort-style house in Loei’s Phu Rua district to see whether it is situated in a national park or protected zone.

It always amazes me (maybe because we are in Amazing Thailand) that no Thai official appears able to read a map, and that no local authority makes an on-site inspection of the location of houses being built.

 

The picture certainly constitutes encroachment. Couldn't they have covered him up, first?

 

Pity he wasn't poaching in Africa.

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/suspected-poacher-eaten-pride-lions-trying-hunt-141210605.html

Skip the Humpty Dumpty likeness. I'm sure he was in the original Star Wars movie.

Will they be bringing in Aliens[on special visa's] to do the probing i have heard they are very good at it.

Looks a bit of a mess for company director