As the research is advancing, at least five designers and audit personnel are anticipated to be summoned.
PUBLISHED: 7 Perhaps 2025 at 21: 30
Police are preparing to indict engineers and state audit officials for their roles in the March 28 earthquake-related collapse of Bangkok’s State Audit Office ( SAO ) building.
More than 100 witnesses have been interrogated, according to a source from the Metropolitan Police Bureau ( MPB) on Wednesday, and the investigation is now about 80 % complete.
As part of the research, witnesses, SAO leaders, the people of those who died or were hurt at the site, as well as businesses involved in the building’s design, gave testimony.
These findings will be combined with reviews based on practical samples, reports from the landscape, and criminal officers and experts will examine reports based on evidence from the field.
The 30-story SAO office was the only high-rise framework to decline on March 28 after a Myanmar-centered earthquake shaken the Thai funds. 13 people are also missing, compared to the 81 body found this week, according to searchers.
At least five people are expected to face expenses, including some who were recently interviewed as witnesses, according to the police source as the situation progresses.
Professionals are among those who are suspected of neglect under Section 227 of the Criminal Code, which forbids those in the job from upholding proper standards while performing structure, and Section 238 if such negligence led to casualties.
Audit staff members may be accused, the source said, but on distinct grounds of wrongdoing.
A model for gathering information at the collapse site in the Chatuchak district is currently being discussed by officials from several organizations. The Metropolitan Administration’s ( BMA ) Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Division, Department of Public Works and Town &, Country Planning Division, Department of Special Investigation Division, Police, and forensic units are just a few examples.
The SAO is currently being prepared to hand over the site of the fell building, according to Suriyachai Rawiwan, chairman of the BMA Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
He claimed that that would have to occur after the search and rescue operations have finished, and a decision needs to be made regarding the location of the information to hold after the decline.
In a related development, Phumtham Wechayachai, the minister of defense, stated at a Wednesday anti-graft workshop that it is difficult to find solutions to problems with building materials. He continued, “everyone may be brought to justice,” and it is the administration’s job to expose the truth.
At an event on the topic of corruption that took place on Wednesday at the Impact Exhibition and Convention Center, two “mule records” were greeted by Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai. ( Photo: Chanat Katanyu )