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Thai tycoon and Chinese company charged over deadly Bangkok building | |
collapse | |
Story by Reuters | |
Updated: | |
9:57 PM EDT, Thu August 7, 2025 | |
Source: Reuters | |
Thai prosecutors on Thursday indicted 23 suspects including a | |
construction tycoon and a Chinese state-owned firm for violations that | |
led to the collapse of a building during a powerful earthquake, killing | |
nearly a hundred workers. | |
The partially built 30-story State Audit Office tower in Bangkok was | |
the only building to collapse from tremors emanating from the powerful | |
in neighboring Myanmar on March 28. At least 95 people were killed in | |
the incident. | |
The construction of the State Audit Office building was a joint venture | |
between Italian-Thai Development, one of Thailand’s largest | |
construction companies, and China Railway Number 10 (Thailand) Ltd, a | |
local unit of China’s state-owned China Railway Group. | |
Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai and an executive of China | |
Railway Number 10 (Thailand) Ltd, was formally charged along with 21 | |
other suspects for breaching construction regulations and causing death | |
through negligence, said Sakkasem Nisaiyok, a spokesman for the Office | |
of the Attorney General, in a statement on Thursday. | |
Some other suspects have also been charged with forging engineering | |
documents, the statement said. | |
Italian-Thai Development did not immediately respond to Reuters’ | |
request for comment. | |
Lawyers for other parties involved in the case, including China Railway | |
Number 10 (Thailand) Ltd, could not be reached for comment. | |
Premchai along with 14 others denied all charges against them when they | |
were by police in May over the building collapse. | |
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