The House committee on finance, fiscal and banking will today file a petition to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) over Airports of Thailand's charges for extra space used at Suvarnabhumi Airport by King Power International.
Surapong Tovichakchaikul, a Puea Thai Party MP and chairman of the committee, said the petition was against the ministers of finance and transport, as well as government officials, for negligence and loss to the state.
The chairman said the action followed testimony on the charges from directors of Airports of Thailand, the finance minister, the permanent secretary of finance and NACC officials.
"The concession for the duty-free area, signed between AOT and King Power in 2005, demands King Power to pay Bt1.2 billion per annum. However, the company's duty free area was 6,820 square metres above the space specified in the concession. However, King Power was charged [an additional] Bt990 million, when the damage is as high as Bt6.49 billion," Surapong said.
Meanwhile, regarding the commercial-space concession, King Power was also found to have controlled 25,820 square metres, when the specified area was only 20,000 square metres. For the extra space, it paid Bt414 million, against an actual cost of Bt1.56 billion, Surachai said.
The AOT board will convene at its monthly meeting today.
AOT president Serirat Prasutanond said yesterday that the board would be informed of the progress on the extra charges on King Power's excess commercial area, which could be valued at Bt300 million-Bt400 million.
He said this was for the extra space used until December 2008.
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