Bangkok – A construction tycoon, builders, designers and engineers surrend March 28 earthquake That hit Myanmar.
Prechai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development CO, the main Thai contractor of the construction project, as well as the designers and engineers were among the 17 years accused of the crime of professional negligence that caused death, said Bangkok’s deputy police chief, NOPPASIN POONSAWAT.
Noppasin said that those who met with the police on Friday formally denied the charges. Several have previously issued public denials in response to accusations in the media.
Ninety -two people were confirmed dead in the debris of the building that had been under construction and that a small number of other people is not counted. The building, which would become a new state audit office, was the only one in Thailand to collapse on the earthquake that focused on neighboring Myanmar. The search for victims The efforts to identify remains through DNA will continue.
NoPPasin said at a press conference that the evidence and testimony of experts suggested that the construction plan did not meet standards and codes. The Bangkok Post newspaper said the police had also determined that the project showed “structural failures in the elevation axis of the nucleus and concrete and lower quality steel.”
The Thai media have reported accusations of irregularities in the project almost every day since the collapse of the building, many of them that involve irregular documentation for the project. Their reports have highlighted the role of the couple of Italian-Tailian Chinese Companies, the China Railway No. 10 Companywhich is involved in projects around the world.
One of the 17 defendants on Friday was the Chinese executive Zhang Chuanling, director of the Chinese company of China Railway No. 10 with Italian-Tailandés development. He was previously arrested last month accused of violating the Thai commercial law through the erroneous use of Thai nominees to serve as representatives of the Chinese firm to allegedly control the joint company. Three Thai executives were also arrested by the position.
A criminal court issued arrest orders for the 17th for the position of negligence on Thursday. Noppasin said that 15 were delivered at a police station in the morning and the remaining two were expected to do it later on Friday.
The earthquake epicenter was in the center Myanmarwhere he killed more than 3,700 people and caused important damage in Mandalay, the second largest city in the country and the capital Naypyitaw.
The case of Prechai is his second important entanglement with the law. In 2019, he was convicted by Pasting Wildlife Hunting and turned about three years in prison.
He was convicted of killing protected animals and illegal possession of weapons after Park Rangers found a hunting party in a wildlife sanctuary in 2018 with corpses of a rare black panther, a kalij Faisán and a deer barking. The panther had been massacred and her flesh cooked for soup.
