Multiple suspects face indictment over March 28 collapse of SAO building

Public prosecutors are expected to indict seven companies and multiple individuals by August 6th, on charges related to the collapse of the State Audit Office’s new building on March 28 this year, said Sanchai Chanphong, director-general of the Office of Criminal Litigation, today.

Reports of the police investigation into the collapse of the building, following a massive earthquake in Myanmar, amounting to more than 90,000 pages in 51 boxes, were presented to the Office of Criminal Litigation at the Office of the Attorney-General today by Pol Maj-Gen Noppasilp Poonsawat, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

He told the media that the police have decided to file charges against 23 suspects for falsifying documents and using falsified documents, faulty design of the SAO building and poor supervision of the construction work and construction, which was not in accordance with regulations, to the extent that it caused the deaths of numerous people.

Regarding current and former executives of the SAO, who are implicated in alleged offences, Noppasilp said that the police’s findings have been submitted to the National Anti-Corruption Commission for consideration.

Chief prosecutor, Sanchai, offered an assurance that public prosecutors will be able to go through the massive report and indict the suspects by the legal deadline of August 6.

More than 90 people, mostly construction workers, were killed when the SAO building, under construction, collapses after being hit by tremors from the earthquake.