Foreign buyers take B2bn housing project fraud case to DSI

The Department of Special Investigation has been asked to investigate alleged fraud in a housing project in Phetchaburi province, with about 100 foreigners claiming damages totalling 2 billion baht.

The petition was filed with the DSI on Wednesday by Srisuwan Janya, president of the Stop Global Warming Association.

Mr Srisuwan was accompanied to the DSI office by a Russian man, Rusan Ataev, and a British man, Marcos Hurst, he said were among the damaged parties.

He said the housing development at issue, the Phetchaburi Park Project, was built on 21 blocks of land covering 555 rai, one ngan and 49 square wah. The land title deeds were in the form of Nor Sor 3 documents.

However, he had found that 99% of the land was…