2 hours ago, biplanebluey said:

Read it again--------- 56,000,000 BHT !!!!!!

Read MY post again... correctly

5 hours ago, JerryinTH said:

Under the bed.. how clever! 

Probably safer than in a Thai bank.

6 hours ago, Adeeos said:

Cops find $156,000,000 Baht under a bed,,,,, edit,, $56,000,000 found under a bed,,, LAST time we will EVER hear about this,,,, HOW many headlines like this are posted on THAI new sites?..... 555555555

1." Cops find $156,000,000 Baht "                is that United States dollars or Thai baht?

2. Then edited to $56,000,000 - fifty six million U.S.Dollars which at todays rough exch rate =  THB1,963,904,933.19.One billion, nine hundred and sixty three million,  nine hundred and four thousand , nine hundred and thirty three THB.

Is there room for some confusion here/

Under the bed, eh? What matchless sleuths Thailand is blessed with!

My grandson, when he was two years old, stood in the rooms corner looking into the corner where he could not see me and automatically assumed that I would not see him as well. But at that time he already knew that the "under the bed" storage was not the safest of all .......... 

15 hours ago, PatOngo said:

How much did they really find?

My first thought. 

4 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

1." Cops find $156,000,000 Baht "                is that United States dollars or Thai baht?

2. Then edited to $56,000,000 - fifty six million U.S.Dollars which at todays rough exch rate =  THB1,963,904,933.19.One billion, nine hundred and sixty three million,  nine hundred and four thousand , nine hundred and thirty three THB.

Is there room for some confusion here/

No, just Thainess

Don't worry , the money will be donated to the nearest temple. 

 

That reminds me, I must check the "Sits Vac" to see if there are any openings like this:

Cleaner wanted by lazy wife of drug lord.

5 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

1." Cops find $156,000,000 Baht "                is that United States dollars or Thai baht?

2. Then edited to $56,000,000 - fifty six million U.S.Dollars which at todays rough exch rate =  THB1,963,904,933.19.One billion, nine hundred and sixty three million,  nine hundred and four thousand , nine hundred and thirty three THB.

Is there room for some confusion here/

Nothing gets edited anymore. Reporters send in copy with "alternatives" but sub editors  (those that have not been replaced with algorithms) either don't know or don't care so the copy just goes on as written. And I've yet to meet a reporter that can add up.

11 hours ago, jaltsc said:

“She denied that it was drug money…56 million baht"

 

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps she was a bar girl, who was really, really, reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally, good at her profession, and just placed the money near her work station. .

If she was that good at her job I'm sure you would have had a gaping hole far safer to keep the money in.

12 hours ago, Adeeos said:

Cops find $156,000,000 Baht under a bed,,,,, edit,, $56,000,000 found under a bed,,, LAST time we will EVER hear about this,,,, HOW many headlines like this are posted on THAI new sites?..... 555555555

Nothing gets edited anymore. It's not just Thailand, look at the online newspapers or the news services like the  Gnews app. Reporters send in copy with "alternatives" but sub editors  (those that have not been replaced with algorithms) either don't know what to do or don't care so the copy just goes on as written. And I've yet to meet a reporter that can add up.

The problem with all that cash is that it's getting increasingly difficult to spend it.

 

Fifteen years ago here in Greece, I bought a property, and to complete the deal, I had to go to the bank and draw out €100,000 in cash (the bank helpfully provided a carrier bag to put it in), walk it round to the notary's office, and then sit for half an hour while the vendor counted it. Once that was done, the papers were signed and the deal done. On the paperwork, for tax purposes, the price paid was €50,000.

 

These days (and I suspect it's now the same in Thailand), that isn't so easy, at least not for larger sums. The taxman has got wise to the sieve-like properties of cash deals, and wants to see a paper trail.

 

So it's all very well having 56m Baht cash under the bed, but if you can't show where it's come from, translating that money into solid assets like a nice house and/or car is just another problem. Even the laundering loopholes are closing fast.

And I guess there was a lot more than 56 million when the first group of cops arrived. LOL.

must have been a huge bed.

Taking money laundering aside as to why he couldn't just put it in the bank, you would have thought that some thai guy would have accepted cash payment for the purchase of some land.

56 Mill will be chump change,just his at hand money..there will be more...did you notice pic on wall.......big cop and him or ??....all big drug dealers connected and pay from there profits but there comes an end where they dont just want a cut ..they want it all..same in the other case with the lao kingpin..they all know whats going on and take when they can take it all..saves time..and many people getting shifted around now and checked more  so they scared to keep collecting with the Army checkin over there shoulders so better arrest him,look good,keep and share everything..everyones a winner..well nearly!

 

Officer, I won the lottery.

6 hours ago, berybert said:

If she was that good at her job I'm sure you would have had a gaping hole far safer to keep the money in.

That hole was filled with the 96 million they didn't find.

The real issue here is blood money. How many people died and how many lives destroyed?

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Under the bed.. how clever! 

Handy though - all neatly bundled up, packed into two suitcases and stached in the first place they looked. Husband being in jail as well...

On 2/10/2017 at 8:26 AM, webfact said:

56 million baht in Thai and Malaysian currency

I guess drug lords don't deal much in Lao kip currency..   His girlfriend would need a ladder to climb up on her mattress.

 

The 100,000 kip note (the largest denomination) = about 400 baht.

Very careless wife, it was probably the buy your way to freedom kitty. 

On 10/02/2017 at 4:31 AM, Thaiwrath said:

 

Thicker than thick these Thais.