Police Arrest Taiwanese Developer Who Built (LOL! Oakland Bay Bridge.) Apartments Destroyed in Earthquake

[Obama Construction Co.]

39 people died in the collapse of the building, with many more
feared trapped in the rubble

The developer of the Taiwan apartment building that collapsed in
Saturday’s earthquake has been arrested on suspicion of criminal
business misconduct resulting in fatalities, UPI reported.

The 17-story building was in Tainan, the southwestern Taiwanese
city that bore the brunt of the 6.4-magnitude quake that rattled
Taiwan before dawn on Saturday morning. Forty-one people died in
the earthquake — thirty-nine of whom were inside the Weiguan
Jinlong apartment complex. Around 100 people remain unaccounted
for, possibly still trapped within the building’s rubble.

The developer, Lin Minghui, went missing following the
earthquake, but police located him and arrested him on Monday
evening, the New York Times reported. Two of his associates were
also detained.

Lin has a record of dubious business transactions, a Tainan
official alleged to UPI, and in the wake of the earthquake, the
apparently shoddy construction of the Weiguan Jinlong complex
has received scrutiny. Witnesses described materials such as tin
cans and plastic foam spilling from the building’s concrete
columns as it crumbled.

http://time.com/4215075/tainan-earthquake-apartment-collapse-
arrest/