President of Italian-Thai Development is formed
A Thai court has issued arrest herds against 17 people, including the president of the Italian-Thai company Italian-Thai Development Plc.
(ITD) Premchai Karnasuta, in relation to the collapse of the skyscraper under construction in Bangkok caused by the violent earthquake that hit Myanmar in March killing over 3,700 people. The CNN reports.
The accusation is of professional negligence with consequent death, which also provides for life imprisonment, declared the deputy chief of the Bangkok police, Somkuan Puensp. Among the defendants are managers and engineers of seven companies involved in the design, construction and supervision of the work of the collapsed skyscraper. The collapse caused 92 victims, according to Bangkok placed.
The police only made the name of Karnasuta, which was formed together with 14 other people, while two should do it on Monday. The man had already been sentenced in 2021 to more than three years in prison for poaching of protected species, after being surprised by the ranger in a camp in the jungle of a wildlife sanctuary with carcasses of protected animals, including a Indochinese black leopard.
Already at the end of April, the authorities of Thailand had arrested a Chinese citizen and had issued arrest mandates against three Thai citizens. According to the Bangkok Post, the four were managers of China Railway No.10 Engineering Group, the Thai branch of Chinese State Holding China Railway Engineering Corporation (Crecc), one of the largest construction companies and engineering in the world. The China Railway n.10 operated in joint venture with ITD, listed on the Bangkok stock exchange. The two contractors formed the ITD-CREC joint venture, which was building the collapsed skyscraper. In recent days, the Minister of Justice, Tawee Sodsong, had said that several collapse investigations are underway, including the possibility of auction disturbance and the use of false signatures of engineers in the supervision contracts of the works. Investigations from other agencies on various issues continue, including the suspicious use of low quality steel in the construction of the building.
