Samui land surveyors transferred
Two surveyors with the land office on Koh Samui have been transferred to inactive posts while a probe seeks to find out if they illegally increased the size of a businessman's block of land.
Saksiwa Srinual and Sukho Phetphrome were initially found responsible for the expansion of a four-rai plot belonging to Suthep Wangdan, owner of "The Peak" resort project, to 49-rai on land documents, said Charoen Janparn, an official with the provincial land office in Surat Thani. Charoen said that after learning the block had been unlawfully expanded, he revoked ownership documents, known as "Deed 220". He said the land office on Koh Samui would take legal action against the owner of the resort project. Meanwhile, a fifth suspect in the island's land-scam scandal has turned himself in to police, a spokesman for the Department of Special Investigation said. Samrerng, or Kasem, Buanark, who has been accused of assisting foreign members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang to illegally obtain land, pleaded innocent before being released on bail. Colonel Piyawat Kingket said Thailand wanted to see the Bandidos leader, Danish national Peter Rosenberg, extradited here to face charges in relation to the scam. He has so far evaded capture.
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