Investigators probing more illegal resort properties in Korat forest reserves

Forest Resource Management Office 8 (Nakhon Ratchasima) is preparing to take action against the owners of 37 more resorts and vacation homes in the province's Wang Nam Kheow district.

"Aerial pictures suggest that these properties are located inside the Khao Phu Luang forest reserve," the office's director Suthep Pawareswittayararn said Friday.

However, he said his office would investigate the case further before deciding on whom it should lodge a complaint against.

Relevant authorities have now been seriously surveying the Khao Phu Luang forest reserve in a bid to crack down on encroachment.

Police investigators have already summoned the owners of 22 other properties located in the forest reserve to acknowledge charges against them.

The Nation