Ive had a transfer frozen myself because of some anti-money laundering check, but the threshold is $10k, and the check should happen when you receive the money, not when you want to withdraw them.

Correction: The limit is $50k

I got the $10k figure from a Krungthai branch employee, but yesterday I spoke with Krungthais foreign remittance department, and they told me the threshold is actually $50k (after receiving $41k which required no special treatment).

Great to hear that the issue was resolved. As I said earlier must have been something wrong with either the buyer or the A/C holder. Any way great things worked out now for you.

Once the bank got the money owed them the bank was made happy. Just a shame that K-bank didn't tell the OP the real reason for the account being on-hold when he first started asking because you know K-bank knew the real reason the money had been placed on-hold from the get-go. Expect the wife suspected what might be going on all the time.