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Published on February 8, 2008

Saprang had been expected to resign from the AOT board following fellow junta member ACM Chalit Pukbhasuk's resignation yesterday as chairman of Thai Airways International.

"There's no law for the board to quit," AOT board member Chirmsak Pinthong said after the meeting.

But a source said Saprang told the meeting it would be his last as AOT chairman.

AOT was ordered to ask King Power, operator of their airport's duty-free outlets, to stop using the City Garden Building immediately. It would also ask the National Counter Corrup-tion Commission to investigate the alleged illegal use of the building.

Pol General Prathin Santi-praphob, chairman of a committee probing the use of the building, a two-storey 1,500 square metre building, did not exist in the construction blueprint of Suvarnabhumi Airport. The person who approved the use of the building did not have the authority to do so. King Power did not have an agreement with AOT to use the building, which lacked the required security standards, he said.

The Nation