News Forum - Bangkok’s Ashton Asoke in legal crisis over construction permit

[Thaiger]

The 50-storey Ashton Asoke Condominium in Bangkok, an impressive high-rise establishment, is in some hot water. After a recent judgement by the Supreme Administrative Court revoked its crucial construction permit, the Governor of Bangkok, Chadchart Sittipunt, faces increasing pressure to intervene. This decision escalates the ongoing legal conflict involving the 233 billion baht project, located … …

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[palooka]

“We’ve adhered to every legal requirement while applying for the construction permit.”

 

Uh Oh someone got cut out of the Big Brown envelopes train. 

[corruptionbuster]

Nothing changes. There are so many parallels here (re the construction permit and a whole host of other corrupt activity) with the still illegal St Regis Hotel and Residences, a scandal that goes back as far as the early part of the century. After exposing serious corruption in The Nation and Bangkok Post I was retaliated against by the hotel companies involved (you know the score - brown envelopes to the police etc etc!!) and chased out of the country in fear of my life

Incidentally, whatever happened to the Aetas Bangkok and Aetas Residence hotels on Soi Ruamrudee, ordered for demolition in 2016 for encroahment and for breaching a height limit?

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[Guest1]

My guess, that will get saddled with some more manila postal bags.

Because , in official terms, the buyers must be taken care off.

But in real, the construct of the investors and construction company  behind this is the way, that there would be no money. Neither to pay back the buyers, nor to demolish or shrink the buildings. 

There are 200 billion ( is that really the number?)  in the game, so how much money did flow in several pockets already? Who now  need to make this legal or may get  caught by this "technicality"?

[ChrisS]

"“We’ve adhered to every legal requirement while applying for the construction permit.”

That would appear to be Thai speak for "We paid the appropriate bribes to all the appropriate people"