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.
The collapse was triggered by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28.
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