Bangkok, May 16: A construction magnate and more than a few other people turned themselves in to the police on criminal neglect costs for the decline of a Bangkok high-rise during a march 28 disaster.
According to Bangkok deputy police chief Noppasin Poonsawat, Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development Co, the principal Thai company for the construction project, as well as designers and engineers, were among the 17 accused of the criminal of professional carelessness causing death.
The accused have openly refuted accusations of wrong.
A small number of different people are still unaccounted for, with 92 confirmed dead in the dust of the tower that had been under development.
The single structure in Thailand to fall during the earthquake that was centered in neighboring Myanmar was the one that would become the fresh State Audit Office.
Noppasin claimed at a press conference that expert testimony and evidence suggested the tower program didn’t adhere to standards and codes.
According to the Bangkok Post paper, police had even discovered that the project had” fundamental flaws in the core lift shaft and poor concrete and steel.”