A Thai court has issued arrest warrants for 17 people including a high-profile construction tycoon, police said on Thursday, over their alleged involvement in the building of a skyscraper that collapsed and killed scores of workers during a powerful March earthquake.

This comes after the Thai police issued arrest warrants for 17 suspects linked to the incident. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Prominent businessman Premchai Karnasuta, CEO of Italian-Thai Development PCL, arrived in a wheelchair to surrender to police in Bangkok on Friday in connection with the deadly collapse of a new State Audit Office (SAO) building that occurred during an earthquake in Bangkok late March.