"Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary"

Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasutra was sentenced to one year in jail on Tuesday after being found guilty of trying to bribe officials while being arrested at the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi early last year.

A COURT will on Tuesday rule on the bribery allegation against Thailand’s construction tycoon Premchai Karnasutra, who has drawn intense negative publicity for allegedly hunting a black leopard.

A COURT in Kanchaburi province yesterday set March to deliver a ruling on the much-talked-about trial against a construction billionaire who is accused of poaching in a wildlife sanctuary.

CONSTRUCTION TYCOON Premchai Karnasuta said he was “excited” to be appearing in court in Kanchanaburi’s Thong Pa Phum district yesterday to defend himself on poaching-related charges.

Police plea for three more charges turned down by attorney general

THREE MONTHS after Italian-Thai Construction president Premchai Karnasuta was arrested in a wildlife sanctuary where the butchered fresh meat of an endangered black leopard was found, public prosecutors have resolved to lay six charges against him.

A CIVIL suit against Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development Plc, for damaging the ecology and environment at Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary would be the first of its kind, if prosecutors decide to pursue the case.

PUBLIC PROSECUTORS have suggested that police collect evidence to file a civil suit against a high-profile construction tycoon for allegedly damaging the ecology and environment in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, where he had allegedly been poaching.

Stencil of black leopard painted over for unknown reasons.

THE SEXUAL organ of a black leopard found slain during the recent arrest of Italian-Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta and his three companions in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary has disappeared, leading the investigators to believe that it was consumed by the suspects.

Nearly two-thirds (64.2 per cent) of Thai people recently surveyed believe the case in which construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta and three others are accused of poaching and possessing wildlife at the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi would ultimately see no wrongdoers punished, because the suspects are from an “influential group”.

POLICE HAVE summonsed a retired senior parks official who allegedly sought to facilitate construction magnate Premchai Karnasuta’s entry into a Kanchanaburi wildlife sanctuary that resulted in the poaching controversy against him.