The appointment took immediate effect.

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After retiring from his Army post earlier this year, Apirat was given the post of deputy secretary-general at the Office of His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary. On October 8 he went into monkhood at the Hong Rattanaram Ratchaworawihan temple in Bangkok. He left the monkhood on October 27.

Former army chief General Apirat named deputy director of Crown Property Bureau

The Royal Gazette website on Wednesday published His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s order to appoint General Apirat Kongsompong as deputy director of the Crown Property Bureau, under Sections 6, 7 and 8 of the Crown Property Act BE 2561.