snoop1130 Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Phuket armed officials seize Freedom Beach Darawan Naknakhon PHUKET:-- Accompanied by armed military personnel, forestry officials today (Nov 25) seized 65 rai of land next to Freedom Beach, on the headland to the south of Patong valued at an estimated B4 billion that has been deemed to be public land. One man at the site hired to charge tourists B200 per person to cross the land to access Freedom beach was also taken into custody. The raid party, comprising forestry officials, police and Thai Royal Navy security personnel from the Third Area of Command, arrived at the popular tourist site at 11am. Phuket Land Office Chief Watcharin Jetanawanich today confirmed to The Phuket News that Land Department Deputy Director Somwut Saikaew on May 12 issued an order for two Chanote land titles issued to Eakachai Sae’iew to be deregistered with the authority of Land Department Director-General Apinan Suethanuwong. Royal Forestry Department region office Director Boonsueb Samakrat today explained that the two Chanote titles were issued for 65 rai of land inside in a national reserve forest area. Full Story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-armed-officials-seize-freedom-beach-60019.php#DJSx6U10SWqYdJpF.97 -- © Copyright Phuket News 2016-11-25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantFan Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Get the money back. Been pillaging for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 interesting development. Might be the 'authorities' are getting serious about dodgy land papers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokningar Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Great stuff keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Familyaffairs Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Well done, to he#% with those arrogant ripoff artists...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helloagain Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 3 hours ago, bokningar said: Great stuff keep it up Aggred good stuff. Now move on to the beach between nai harn and kata noi. You get to it just past kata view point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfalfa19 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 sometimes i start to think that somebody is serious about doing something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinot Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I wonder why people are being charged 100 baht (20 baht to Thais) to access Laem Sing beach. That's a license to print money. Now that the crook at Freedom Beach is gone, where else do they charge to get on to the King's beach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelepulse Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 26 minutes ago, helloagain said: Aggred good stuff. Now move on to the beach between nai harn and kata noi. You get to it just past kata view point They did, twice already. Are they back charging a fee and discharging firearms again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDave Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 13 minutes ago, Pinot said: I wonder why people are being charged 100 baht (20 baht to Thais) to access Laem Sing beach. That's a license to print money. Now that the crook at Freedom Beach is gone, where else do they charge to get on to the King's beach? I think it's more of a case of landowners charging a fee for allowing you to enter their private land in order to get to the beach situated on public (crown) land. If the access is via private land, then they would be within their rights to charge a fee for walking across or parking on their land. A while back, my wife questioned the guys collecting money at Laem Singh and she was told that it's a company that receives the money (presumably because they own the land between the road and the beach?). In any event, those guys were issuing receipts with the company name printed at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 This dodgy land grab at Freedom Beach has been linked to at least three deaths, including the drive-by murder of a journalist who was investigating. Why are there still people claiming ownership and charging fees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 "I bought this land because I want to develop it to promote tourism for our island,” he said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 17 hours ago, GiantFan said: Get the money back. Been pillaging for years. 200 baht to go to Freedom Beach?? One has to wonder how long this scam was in operation. Any follow up on the false chanotes? Ah yes now that dirty word "work" rears its ugly head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDave Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 5 hours ago, madmitch said: "I bought this land because I want to develop it to promote tourism for our island,” he said How many signs and stickers does one need to sell in order to buy 65 rai of land valued at 4 billion baht? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krenjai Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 I recently paid 100 THB pp to enter Laem SIngh beach, is this legal? It never used to be like that..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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