PUBLISHED: 13 Apr 2025 at 13: 06
The State Audit Office tower’s suspected surrogate business with a Chinese company is almost at 50 % of its completion, despite the lack of visible lights under the dust of the high-rise construction.
The Department of Special Investigation’s official, Pol Maj Woranan Srilam, stated on Sunday that the research involved alleged shareholding by proxy at China Railway No. 10 Engineering Co ( Crec 10 ). He claimed that the department was looking into the monetary dealings of three alleged nominees.
The State Audit Office’s ( SAO ) new headquarters was constructed under the auspices of Crec 10’s creation of the ITD-Crec Joint Venture. Quickly collapsing on March 28 was the construction of the tower when a 7.7-magnitude disaster struck Myanmar.
The DSI is looking into Crec 10’s joint ventures and previous jobs, according to Pol Maj Woranan. About 10 more businesses have been registered to the same group of shareholders, according to the department’s findings.
The DSI is looking into whether the firm harmed international business and engaged in selling cooperation, and whether the 30-store SAO tower was constructed using subpar concrete.
Surawut Rangsai, the DS I’s deputy director-general, claimed that the agency had already discovered that two Chinese citizens had received money from allegedly proxy.
He added that from April 18 to May 15, the DSI would interview representatives of Crec 10, Italian-Thai Development Plc ( ITD), and other businesses that had entered the SAO tower project.
Rescuers continued to remove dirt at the decline site in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district on Sunday. Firefighters are also attempting to reach the place where there were blinking lamps beneath the dust, according to Chatuchak district chief Patkorn Sinsuk.
She claimed that there were no rescue attempts because big concrete blocks were still holding back volunteers.
As of Sunday, 37 people had died at the site of the collapse, and 57 some had vanished. Nine people came out of the hospital with wounds.