4 Chinese caught stealing documents from Bangkok collapse site

In Thailand, police detained four Chinese nationals on Sunday for unlawfully entering the site of an under-construction building that collapsed after a powerful earthquake in Chatuchak District last week. The police said these men were trying to retrieve documents from the building site. A Chinese-backed construction firm is being investigated over the collapse of the 30-story under-construction high-rise during Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar. The unfinished building crumbled in seconds, sending a cloud of dust and debris into the air and trapping dozens under the rubble.
According to Thai news portal The Nation, the men were caught illegally entering the area of a high-rise building that collapsed during last week's powerful earthquake and removing over 30 files from there.Police Major General Nopasin Poolswat confirmed to the local media that the four Chinese nationals had been caught removing 32 files of documents from the collapsed State Audit Office (SAO) building. The Bangkok authorities designated the site as a restricted area where no one was allowed to enter without authorisation. However, the police later received information about some individuals removing documents from the site.
During the police probe, it was revealed that one of the men had a valid work permit and claimed he was the project manager for a building construction project. Three other men were later found, and the stolen documents were recovered, including blueprints and various other paperwork related to the building's construction. The four Chinese individuals told police that they were subcontractors working for a contractor under Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited. They said they entered the area to retrieve the documents that were needed for an insurance claim and were stored in a container that was being used as a temporary office by the company.later on Sunday, authorities from the Chatuchak District Office filed a complaint against five Chinese nationals for violating the public announcement by entering the building site and removing blueprints and other documents from the collapsed SAO building.
Despite Bangkok's skyline being filled with high-rise buildings under construction, no other projects suffered similar destruction. Experts and officials are now questioning the structural integrity of the collapsed building, which belonged to Thailand's State Audit Office (SAO) and had been under construction for three years at a reported cost of over two billion baht (45 million pounds).