4 Chinese Men Try To “Remove” Documents From Bangkok Collapse Site, Detained

Bangkok:

Officials from the police department of Thailand arrested four Chinese people on Sunday for entering a place without permission to work on a building under construction that had collapsed because of a strong earthquake in Chatuchak District a week ago. These men were found by the police to be trying to retrieve documents from the site of the building.

A construction company backed by Chinese capital is under investigation for the crash of the 30-story building in Frida’s earthquake during the 7.7-magnitude quake that shook the central part of Myanmar. The uncompleted tower came down in a few seconds, producing a cloud of debris and dust that covered the air and left some people buried under the collapsed structure.

Police Major General Nopasin Poolswat, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, revealed that four Chinese individuals were captured for theft of 32 files of documents from the backside of the freshly melted State Audit Office (SAO) building, located at no day no times, without permission, according to a report by the National Thailand.

The governor of the capital Bangkok announced the area where the building collapsed as a disaster location and thus made it a restricted area where no one was authorized to enter. The police explain, however, that they have been informed on Saturday that several individuals were taking away documents from the site. Their inquiry had brought them to one of the Chinese men at the spot, who introduced himself as the project manager of the construction project of a building.

It had to be acknowledged during the first stage of the investigation that the man arrested didn’t falsify his documents and the company he was working for was part of the joint venture with the Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited, the main contractor for the building under construction, which confirms that no wrongdoing has been done. Moreover, the police, acting on a tip-off, managed to arrest three other criminals when they tried to hide more than 32 documents scattered in various places including Thailand. The documents contained various types of paperwork, the National Thailand report.

The four Chinese men who had been detained before narrated to the police that they were subcontractors, engaged by the contractor working for Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited. To be precise, they mentioned that they were checking the area to collect the records needed for an insurance claim stored in the converted closet used by the company for an office.

The detainees were released after they were being questioned. Although, one day after, officers from the Chatuchak District Office reported that the force had been invaded by five Chinese citizens. The situation was caused by some intruders entering the construction site and taking away documents. The police will go ahead with legal action against the four suspects. A fifth suspect, whose identity the police have already established, remains under investigation with follow-up actions pending.

Bangkok Building Collapse

As per news agency AFP, the death toll, as of Sunday, has been confirmed as 17, with 32 injured and 76 still unaccounted for – most of them the building’s construction workers. Relief operations are being continued with the use of the rescue teams who are working under disturbing hot to bring out the survivors.

Bangkok has skyward buildings under construction but this occurrence is the lone display of tearing off by mother nature. The inquiry by experts and authorities is now centred on the building of the State Audit Office (SAO) of Thailand, designed and built over three years at a cost of over two billion baht (45 million pounds).