The judge-led committee will investigate whether fire safety standards were inadequate, if construction practices contributed to the fire and if there were failures by government officers or contractors.
The committee’s website said it would also seek to determine whether there were more systemic problems that included “conflicts of roles, or improper collusion … and whether bid-rigging corruption, or irregularities were involved in the tendering process of these works”.
Police are conducting a criminal investigation and have arrested 38 people on charges including manslaughter and fraud.
Hong Kong’s anti-graft watchdog has also arrested 23 people, including consultants, contractors and members of the owners’ corporation of the complex, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said in a statement on Wednesday.
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