Bangkok: The head of the tracking organization informed Reuters that irregularities had been made in the development of a Bangkok skyscraper that had collapsed last week and had killed at least 11 people.
The government had threatened to cancel the project earlier this year due to delays, according to Mana Nimitmongkol, president of the Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand, on Sunday ( Mar 30 ).
The government has announced an exploration into the decline of the building, which was being constructed by a Thai construction company and a Chinese firm.
On Monday, 76 more people were still frantically searching for those feared trapped beneath the 30-story tower’s empty structure, which officials had feared would be located under the wreckage of.
The just Bangkok structure that totally crumbled was the empty tower, which was erupted when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake quake struck northern Myanmar on Friday and shook neighboring nations.
The Chinese Railway Number 10 ( Thailand ) Ltd., a joint venture between Italian Thai Development PCL and a local subsidiary of China’s state-owned China Railway Group, is overseeing the building’s construction, which started in 2020.
When contacted by Reuters, Chinese Railway Group and Italian Thai Development did not immediately post.
The assessment company has indicated that it will look into the reasons behind the building’s collapse. It did not respond to Reuters ‘ e-mail inquiries about a potential cancellation of the construction contract.
The castle was supposed to be finished by 2026, but it was behind schedule. Sutthipong Boonnithi, the lieutenant auditor general, told investigators on Saturday that the building was just” 30 per cent finished” before it collapsed.
The anti-corruption group’s site trips to the job during its development had raised fears about delays, worker shortages, and potential corner-cutting, according to Mana.
He claimed that” often there were much fewer workers on the job site than there should be, which caused disruptions.” Possibly there was a rush to finish the job toward the end, which could lead to a decline in the standard of work.
Mana, whose organization examines 170 federal jobs nationwide, claimed the audit department had threatened to cancel the contract with the two design firms in January because of the building delay.
When markets opened on Monday, ITD share prices dropped 30 % against a benchmark drop of 1 %.