NACC opens new front in land case

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) provides found additional environment for taking legal motion against Deputy Training Minister Kanokwan Vilawan for alleged illegal land encroachment within Khao Yai National Park in Prachin Buri.

NACC secretary-general Niwatchai Kasemmongkol said authorities found additional reasons to claims that will false title deeds were issued intended for four land and building plots inside the park boundary in tambon Noen Hom of Muang district.

Mr Niwatchai stated Ms Kanokwan’s land acquisition inside the park was illegal.

Her offences would be divided in to two cases — a criminal case which will be supervised by Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases Region 2, and a serious ethics violation case which the NACC would send out to the Supreme Courtroom to consider stripping the girl from her publish.

Microsoft Kanokwan reported to the Office of the Auditor General to hear the girl first charge upon June 10. The lady was released on bail with 300, 000-baht cash and land title deeds because surety.

She, her dad Mr Soonthorn and eight other people were accused in June by the NACC of illegally occupying regarding 150 rai associated with land in Khao Yai National Park.

The particular NACC said Microsoft Kanokwan, her father and a woman called Noi Toomphan had been found to have busy three areas of property in the park along with false title actions issued two decades ago by Lands Division officials.

Two of the false title deeds be the cause of a combined fifty four rai of property. The size of the third prevent was not disclosed. Microsoft Kanokwan is a mouthpiece secretary-general of the Bhumjaithai Party and her father is the mind of the Prachin Buri Provincial Administration Company. No details were released about Ms Noi.

According to the Internal Safety Operations Command (Isoc), an initial probe recommended the politician’s loved ones began encroaching for the national park in 2017, when the Division of National Recreational areas, Wildlife and Seed Conservation filed a complaint against all of them. No progress was made in the case.

In 2020, the team found another 24 rai appeared to have been unlawfully issued to the family members. The case was sent to the OAG.