Legal Actions
On October 2, 2007, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam decided to collect all relating documents in order to define right cause, and liable individuals and organizations to take prosecution against those responsible for the collapse in accordance with Article 229 of the Penal Code of the S.R. Vietnam "Violation of construction regulations leading to the severe consequence". On October 2, 2007, Vinh Long Police signed a prosecution decision (Decision no. 29) against some of the sub-contractors. According to the local police, through the investigations, it shows that the contractors made removal of scaffoldings sooner than detailed engineering design requirements which broke the structure and led to the domino effect collapse. Some testimonies also indicated that, the subcontractors used bad quality scaffoldings, which had been utilized several times.
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