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Bangkok Hotel Deaths: Vietnamese Guide Admits to Supplying Snake Poison


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In a new development, a Vietnamese guide has admitted to being involved in a murder-suicide at a luxury downtown Bangkok hotel. On July 16, six Vietnamese visitors, including two American citizens, died under mysterious circumstances at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel.

 

The guide, Mr. Phan Ngoc Vu, 35, revealed to police that one of the deceased, Ms. Thi Nguyen Phuong Lan, 47, had given him 11,000 baht between July 3-5 to purchase what she referred to as "snake medicine No. 7." Phan passed this task on to a man known only as “Tiger,” who delivered the item to Lan at one of the Atrium hotels in Bangkok.

 

Initially feared to be poison, police have sent a sample of the "snake medicine" for testing to determine its nature. They are currently reviewing surveillance footage to identify and capture the elusive "Tiger."

 

Adding another layer of intrigue, Lan's Japanese businessman husband informed police that he had given 70 million dong (about 90,000 baht) to Lan's sister, who returned to Vietnam on July 10. Phan confirmed he had exchanged this sum into Thai baht and handed it over to Lan’s sister while she was in the company of Mr. Hung Dang Van, 55, one of the deceased.

 

Lan's husband, who flew in from Japan, disclosed that his wife had convinced their friends, Ms. Thi Nguyen Phuong, 46, and Mr. Hong Pham Thanh, 49, to invest over 10 million baht to build a hospital in Japan.

 

Contrary to earlier suspicions, Lan had not misused the investment for personal gain but entrusted it to another Vietnamese-American investor, Ms. Sherine Chong, 56, also among the deceased.

 

Her husband further noted that on July 15, he had video-called Lan twice. Although she seemed cheerful and showed no signs of distress, she later did not answer his repeated calls but managed to transfer 7,000 baht to their child, reported Thai Newsroom.

 

Picture courtesy: Matichon via Thai Newsroom

 

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-- 2024-07-18

 

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2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yesterday they were blaming Chong as the culprit, now it's Lan

both invoved..Aid and Abetting

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Everywhere else Chanel No 5, here Snake poison No 7 a delicate blend of banded krait, king cobra, and pit viper 🤔

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Everybody's jumping around picking straws to get information. There's plenty to be had, but the RTP have been told to keep stum for the time being. 

Plenty more to come.

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like I said before - this is like an Ian Fleming novel

 

There is more to this

 

i certainly would not trust anything the thai police say or do

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1 hour ago, JoePai said:

What did the forensic report say was the cause of death ?  

not snake (oil) poison

 

like I said in my post above, I don't believe a word come out of the -

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49 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

How will this have an impact on tourism? It was an isolated event, among folks who knew each other, and it was related to a loan gone south. This is not the same as a random murder. It will have no impact on people planning trips here. 

Does the world know that now? It might depend how carefully the Thai Government gets the facts out.  We all know the Thai Government is really good at getting the facts out in a clear manner? 

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Cyanide tea bags reported on the local radio station. 

Deliberate poisoning. 

 

 

The group were involved with Japanese real estate purchase, hospital. 

 

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