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Arrest warrants issued for Premchai, 16 others over SAO building collapse
PUBLISHED : 15 May 2025 at 19:58
Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta leaves the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Case Region 7 in Samut Songkhram province on June 11, 2019. He is among 17 suspects facing arrest warrants issued by the Criminal Court on Thursday for the collapse of the State Audit Office building after the March 28 earthquake. (Bangkok Post file photo)
The Criminal Court on Thursday approved arrest warrants for 17 people, including construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta, in connection with the collapse of the 2.1-billion-baht State Audit Office building in Bangkok, triggered by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28.
Premchai, 71, president of Italian-Thai Development Plc, and the other 16 suspects face charges under sections 227 and 238 of the Criminal Code for professional negligence causing death.
The suspects include engineers, supervisors and contractors from three groups: design firms (Forum Architect, Meinhardt Thailand), construction supervisory firms and the ITD-CREC joint venture (Italian-Thai Development Plc and China Railway No.10 Thailand).
Police investigators found that the building’s design violated safety standards, with structural flaws in the core lift shaft and substandard concrete and steel.
The collapse of the 30-storey building resulted in 92 deaths, nine injuries and four missing persons.
On Tuesday, the investigation team, headed by Pol Maj Gen Somkhuan Phuengsap, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, sought approval from the Criminal Court to arrest the 17 suspects.
In December 2021, the Supreme Court
sentenced Premchai to a prison term of three years and two months for hunting in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in February 2018.
The Criminal Court on Thursday approved arrest warrants for 17 people, including construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta, in connection with the collapse of the 2.1-billion-baht State Audit Office building in Bangkok, triggered by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28.
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