THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Land deeds valued at Bt116m seized from former Klongchan chief

Land deeds valued at Bt116m seized from former Klongchan chief

THE DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) has confiscated a large number of land title deeds covering 1,616 rai of land from the office of fraud suspect Supachai Srisupa-aksorn, the former chairman of Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative.

The 680 land ownership documents will be seized and frozen, before being auctioned and the money returned to cooperative members who had suffered from Supachai’s alleged frauds, DSI director-general Suwana Sarajutha said.
The 680 land ownership documents, valued at Bt116 million, show the cooperative as the owner but they were suspiciously stored in his private office at U-Tower building on Srinakharin Road in Bang Kapi district.
The DSI also found 14 other documents owned by Supachai and a number of other people of land plots in five provinces covering 1,527 rai.
The DSI had not decided to confiscate them as a probe into the legality of these documents was not complete.
A senior DSI agent, Somboon Sarasit, said the DSI would on June 11 inspect a safe deposit box found in another of Supachai’s offices on the 2nd floor of the U-Tower building.
The DSI has agreed to look into acts of money laundering in two cases, including sales of vast land plots to Alisa Asavabhokhin, a daughter of billionaire land developer Anant, known for his long-standing support for Wat Dhammakaya.
Supachai, as a fraud suspect, has been subject to further DSI investigations into his donations of a large amount of money to the Pathum Thani-based temple.
Somboon said Alisa would be questioned by the DSI later this month.
Another DSI senior agent, Pakorn Suchewakul, said the DSI had inspected transactions of money through 500 cheques out of a total of 878 issued by Supachai to a large number of people.
Samrit Bundhitkrissada, the chairman of Police Football Club and an executive at Billion Innovatheque Co Ltd, who was the recipient of Bt20 million from Supachai through two cheques, will meet the DSI today at 10am for an interview, after an earlier postponement, said Pakorn.
 

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