The administration of Phu Quoc City, a popular island destination in Vietnam’s southern Kien Giang Province, has forced a developer to demolish an illegally-built 12-story building located in Duong To Commune.

Huynh Quang Hung, chairman of the Phu Quoc People’s Committee, passed a decision ordering the demolition of the building on Thursday afternoon.

The developer was found to have built the building against an earlier approved plan with an area of 2,746 square meters and converted a 473-square-meter plot of land for perennial crops into non-agricultural land in the rural area.

Hence, the Phu Quoc administration forced the developer to pull down the illegally-built building and restore the original status of the 473-square-meter plot of land within 90 days after the issuance date of the demolition order.

The building had only six floors before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

Later, the developer constructed another six floors.

In August last year, the Phu Quoc administration imposed an administrative fine of VND61.5 million (US$2,625) on the developer, including VND55 million ($2,340) for the illegal construction of the building and VND6.5 million ($277) for the unlawful conversion of agricultural land use into non-agricultural use.

The developer paid the fine but did not take remedial measures as required by the city’s administration, said the Kien Giang Department of Construction, which later proposed the Phu Quoc administration further take coercive measures against the developer.

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