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Phuket resorts face day in court
Authorities in Phuket are investigating a number of branded luxury resorts that border national parks.
Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation is checking whether the properties under investigation have encroached onto national park land.
Properties being probed, according to a local news report, include the five-star Trisara, the Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach and the West Sands Resort and Villas, developed by a company headed by former Tesco chief Sir Terry Leahy and now home to a Centara Grand,
The resorts under investigation have rejected all allegations of impropriety and say developments have followed the law.
The National Parks head in charge of the investigations, Damrong Pidech, is popularly known as ”The Demolisher,” said the Phuket Wan newswire.
Damrong said each of the resort developers would need to produce a signed authority from the Forests Department granting acceptance of the legitimacy of the Phuket property titles.
”They will need to go to a court and produce evidence,” he said. ”We intend to take them all to court.
”If we lose, so be it. If we win, the properties involved – no matter what they are worth – will be demolished.”
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