Supreme court orders ETA not to pay Bt6.2 billion
The Supreme Court overturned on Wednesday Civil Court's decision which ordered the Expressway and Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (ETA) to pay BBCD consortium a compensation of Bt6.2 billion.
The Supreme Court said that then then ETA governor Siwa Charoenphan unlawfully signed a contract with BBCD to build the Bang Na-Bang Pli-Bang Pakong Expressway so the ETA was not bound to pay any compensation resulted from the contract.
An arbitration committee asked the ETA to pay the compensation to BBCD for a delay in handing over land for the construction of the expressway.
Later, the Civil Court ruled on December 30, 2003 to uphold the arbitrary committee's decision
The Supreme Court said that BBCD had offered stocks and rights to purchase stocks to Siwa and other officials to convince them over the contract. Therefore the Court considered the contracts unlawfully conducted.
The Supreme Court said Siwa signed the contract with BBCD although he was well aware that there were many problems which could be used as reasons to extend the contract and to demand for additional compensations and expenses.
Considering these, Court believed that Siwa wanted to help the plaintiff as he was promised benefits from the plaintiffs.
The Nation
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