Two million is one more than I had carried around for buying the first car in 2011.

Recently the granddaughter who is very digital savvy did 400k down payment in cash at Toyota.

The safe seems a bit odd. Normally you'd have it secured to something, or have it in a floor or wall. According to the reports they just took it. They'll have to break it open somehow as if they had the key or combination I would assume they would have taken just the money.

Maybe SHE'S still going to buy a 2 million baht house......just not with her current tirak. 55555 stranger things have happened in the Land of Smiles!

7 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

They withdrew the 2 million to buy a house.... is buying a house with cash normal ?

Bank transfer is normal not cash wife is in on it or he is sleeping with somebody that he told

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Yes it is,

When I was at the land office, there were tables of cash stacked high in front of many Thais.

surely it's safer and easier to do a bank transfer? unless you don't want a paper trail, for whatever reason...? the authorities are concerned with travel card corruption (passport and phone number required to obtain a travel card ffs) and yet allow large value cash payments? oh the irony.

on another level, those piles of cash will be ten times higher if they cancel the 1000 baht notes...

6 hours ago, save the frogs said:

sounds like an obviously British accent in the video to me.

guy has a legit job - chef, but nothing else makes sense. who pays cash for a house with no mortgage? and even if paying cash, you could do a transfer. why would you keep it in a safe? and why would you advertise it to your pals at the bar?

sounds more likely drug-related money.

And how many 32 year olds have two million in cash anyway?

Inside Job. The girlfriend may have told someone about the money maybe knowing what would happen maybe not knowing, someone at the bank was in on it or the Brit let it slip to someone he knows.

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

The informant / snitch.

Anyway, this guy was delusional that these guys were all close friends.

People cannot be trusted.

Certainly not with knowledge of 2m baht. People get killed for 10 baht.

6 hours ago, Tubulat said:

Why not? After all, we don't live in Europe. I recently bought a car worth 4 million in cash here, but the dealer refused to accept it, so I had to deposit it into a bank account together with an employee.

Did the employee escape?

13 hours ago, save the frogs said:

sounds like an obviously British accent in the video to me.

guy has a legit job - chef, but nothing else makes sense. who pays cash for a house with no mortgage? and even if paying cash, you could do a transfer. why would you keep it in a safe? and why would you advertise it to your pals at the bar?

sounds more likely drug-related money.

I've bought two houses in Thailand with cash. Bought my first car with cash. Second car was done with a cashiers check. Back then the sellers wanted cash so that is what I provided. These days cashiers checks are more accepted.

7 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

I've bought two houses in Thailand with cash.

How many years ago?

Can't you do a simple bank transfer in this day and age?

Did you keep the cash in a safe before the purchase?

How long? 72 hours?

Did you have drinking buddies over while the money was sitting in the safe?

Did you trust your girlfriend at the time with all that money sitting in the safe?

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

How many years ago?

Can't you do a simple bank transfer in this day and age?

Did you keep the cash in a safe before the purchase?

How long? 72 hours?

Did you have drinking buddies over while the money was sitting in the safe?

Did you trust your girlfriend at the time with all that money sitting in the safe?

Last house was about 20 years ago. You can't do a bank transfer if the seller has no bank account. The money was kept in a brown paper bag. We have a safe now, a proper safe, not one you can casually tuck under one arm as you walk out of the house.

16 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

They withdrew the 2 million to buy a house.... is buying a house with cash normal ?

13 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Yes it is,

When I was at the land office, there were tables of cash stacked high in front of many Thais.

We did when we bought our piece of land, it was 15 years ago, we paid cash, went to the bank and got 800k out and gave it to the land seller he asked for cash, even took us in his own car.

We are far from the only ones paying cash.

Again an inside job that his gf is the person involved

Obviously somebody did rat out. From the girl's side ? Somebody at the bank ? neither of these ? hard to say.

Nevertheless, very bad image for tourism.

16 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

Amateurs, which further points towards inside job spur of moment crime of opportunity. Phones likely ditched out of fear of tracking software or unusable due to face recognition/passcode software. Cops likely suspect girlfriend, as do I.

If the perps were Thai then yes - girlfriend would've been the first suspect - however they were clearly foreign (British accent) so it's much more likely one of his "friends" was in on it. Assuming only a few people knew about the money the list of suspects gets real short. The girlfriend looked genuinely terrified and tried to call for help once she was able to run outside - so unlikely she knew about it ahead of time. (but you never know - it's Pattaya - maybe she ran her mouth at the bar while some guys were listening)

The phones were ditched because they never wanted them - they just took them to prevent the victims from calling police immediately after. Either way they'll probably be caught very soon.

Hes either in on it

or

Lamenting not having a decoy safe, and a large calibre pistol in wifey's name

12 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

And how many 32 year olds have two million in cash anyway?

uh $65,000 USD ? Plenty do.

The victim is British. I trust his word.

22 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

All the Thai's I buy property from want cash.

Guess you don´t buy from so many then.

On 2/27/2026 at 7:04 AM, BritManToo said:

Yes it is,

When I was at the land office, there were tables of cash stacked high in front of many Thais.

Yeah, sure! I never heard of that the land office has been robbed. Sounds to me that it might be better than a bank job as it sounds on you.

13 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Yeah, sure! I never heard of that the land office has been robbed. Sounds to me that it might be better than a bank job as it sounds on you.

I always thought it would be a great place to rob too, but I suspect a lot of the Thais carried guns so maybe a bit risky.

33 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I always thought it would be a great place to rob too, but I suspect a lot of the Thais carried guns so maybe a bit risky.

Might have a point there. I also know they bring a lot of cash many times. You would have thought somebody at least would try.

Troll posts removed. Discuss the topic and not other posters.

Interesting story from 9 years ago, a 23 year old chef is sentenced for fraud. His name: Wesleigh Cyril Russell from Clitheroe

He would be 32 now.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15498288.clitheroe-man-left-mum-daughter-dire-financial-straits-fraudulently-selling-car/

Five years earlier, when our Mr Russell would have been 18 years old, a Wesley Cyril Russell aged 18, of Clitheroe, is sentenced for theft from a hotel

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9996754.clitheroe-crooks-holiday-cost-hotel-14-922/

On 2/27/2026 at 3:04 AM, BritManToo said:

Yes it is,

When I was at the land office, there were tables of cash stacked high in front of many Thais.

I paid cash for my house.

7 hours ago, pj123 said:

Interesting story from 9 years ago, a 23 year old chef is sentenced for fraud. His name: Wesleigh Cyril Russell from Clitheroe

He would be 32 now.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15498288.clitheroe-man-left-mum-daughter-dire-financial-straits-fraudulently-selling-car/

Five years earlier, when our Mr Russell would have been 18 years old, a Wesley Cyril Russell aged 18, of Clitheroe, is sentenced for theft from a hotel

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9996754.clitheroe-crooks-holiday-cost-hotel-14-922/

Oh my, pj, you've cracked it! ( the safe, lol).

Extracts from one of the links you posted-

Wesley Cyril Russell, 18, of George Street, and Liam Nuttall, 18, of De Lacy Street, pleaded guilty to two charges of burglary at the Sandy Lodge Hotel, Newquay, making off without payment and using criminal obtained cash.

Blackburn magistrates heard the pair stole more than £1,500 from the safe of the hotel where they had been staying and then left in the dead of night without paying their £1,922 bill.

And they also took a set of master keys which resulted in the hotel having to pay £11,500 to have every lock on the premises replaced.

This was back in 2012, so 13 years later he's 31/32.

Seems Mr Russell has a thing about safes!

On 2/27/2026 at 8:06 AM, ronster said:

So who was the girlfriend showing the cash off too when he was away working seemingly as a chef ? 🤔

Google his name, then you might not blame the girlfriend.

On 2/27/2026 at 9:43 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

All the Thai's I buy property from want cash.

Need more money than that for a decent house.

On 2/27/2026 at 10:48 PM, norsurin said:

Again an inside job that his gf is the person involved

BS, google the guys name.