BANGKOK -- It was an overnight fall from grace. The multimillionaire whose company built Thailand's largest airport and Bangkok's first mass transit railway is now drawing attention for a poaching scandal that has stirred fresh debate over the privileges enjoyed by the country's powerful wealthy class.
Premchai Karnasuta, the high-profile president of Thai construction company Italian-Thai Development, was arrested in early February for allegedly hunting endangered species, including a rare black leopard, at a World Heritage wildlife sanctuary in the western province of Kanchanaburi.
