This whole 'foreigner land-buy scam' is 100% aimed at the Chinese anyway.
No-one (no normal people anyway) in their right mind would "invest" 40 million baht to buy 1 rai of land.
Come on guys let's get real.
He's a product of the Thai "mai pen rai" attitude and avoidance of conflict. This is a scurge of Thai society. Don't want to deal with problems as they arise.