Construction magnate Premchai Karnasuta has denied poaching charges levelled against him and three others. They were arrested earlier this month in the sanctuary in western Thailand where rangers stumbled on their camp and found guns and animal carcasses. Premchai, president of Italian-Thai Development Company which built Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport among many other major projects, denied poaching after his arrest. The Thungyai Naresuan national park where Premchai was arrested is in tourist-friendly Kanchanaburi province. The slain animals at the campsite were a black leopard, a Kalij pheasant and a red muntjac or barking deer -- protected species under Thai conservation law.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 18, 2018 07:52 UTC