"Premchai"

Italian-Thai Development President Premchai Karnasuta was sentenced to six months in jail for possessing a rifle without permission

Italian-Thai Development President Premchai Karnasuta submitted a request to the Thong Pha Phum Provincial Court in Kanchanaburi province on Monday(January 13), seeking the removal of an electronic monitoring anklet he was ordered to wear as part of the conditions of his bail.

The chief of Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary (western side), in Kanchanaburi province, who came into the national limelight after his arrest of business tycoon Premchai Karnasuta and his accomplices in 2018, has requested a transfer from the park, citing health reasons.

The Supreme Court has granted bail to Italian-Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta and his three accomplices, the Thong Pha Phum Provincial Court in Kanchanaburi province announced at 4.30pm on Friday (December 13).

Thong Pha Phum Provincial Court in Kanchanaburi province on Thursday (December 12) read the appeal court's ruling in the criminal case filed by Thong Pha Phum district attorney against Italian Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta and 3 accomplices for trespassing and poaching in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary on February 4-6, 2018.

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.

PROSECUTORS DECIDE TO APPEAL AMID LINGERING PUBLIC ANGER OVER PREMCHAI VERDICT

More mature readers may remember the deadly hunters that roamed northern Thailand in the 1970s and ’80s.

Re: “Law hunts down tycoon”, Front page, March 20.

A Kanchanaburi court jailed construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta for 16 months on Tuesday but acquitted him of poaching a black leopard in a local nature reserve.

Kanchanaburi -A Thai tycoon accused of poaching a black leopard at a wildlife sanctuary arrived in court Tuesday for the highly anticipated verdict -- a case that has fuelled outrage in a country fed up with impunity and corruption.