News Forum - Koh Samui hotel thieves may have been led by the ex-lessee

[Thaiger]

In the strange case of a hotel owner claiming her hotel was dismantled by thieves who took literally everything, three more suspects were arrested in Koh Samui. Police executed a search warrant on Thursday for a warehouse on Samui that they say contained items they believe to be stolen from the remains of the Chaweng Blue Lagoon Teak Wing. Though the hotel looks like an unfinished construction site and has been observed in that condition since at least late April before the thieves were suspected of starting to dismantle the property, online booking sites, along with papers found amongst the […]

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[Fanta]

45 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

instructing the couple that they had 30 days to remove all the furnishings and items from the property before the landlord took control of the property

They certainly did that! 

[Janneman]

'Natcha, the 31 year old Thai woman accused of leading the thieves, is married to a Swiss expat and they had leased the property in 1990 to build a hotel, with a 30-year lease that would have expired then in 2020'

 

Dunno how to read this. That Natcha is 31 years old, married to a Swiss expat, and they leased the property in 1990. One year before she was born?

[kalyan]

The land owner possibly greedy, want the hotel in the same way, the thai women and swiss expats, where being told to vacate, they vacate and took away everything they made it, luckily they still left the building and bricks, i thought they will come with a contractor to remove the bricks and breaks the pillers and coloumns get the iron bars for sale, after all the house owner needs the empty plot of land which was given on lease !!

[KaptainRob]

59 minutes ago, Janneman said:

'Natcha, the 31 year old Thai woman accused of leading the thieves, is married to a Swiss expat and they had leased the property in 1990 to build a hotel, with a 30-year lease that would have expired then in 2020'

Dunno how to read this. That Natcha is 31 years old, married to a Swiss expat, and they leased the property in 1990. One year before she was born?

Too many holes in the stories coming out so far.

[Grumpish]

Am I missing something - if the original lease was for the land, why would the fixtures and fittings of a property built on that land by the lessee belong to the landowner? 

[Sparks]

Sounds like the landowner wanted a luxury hotel property for free vs. extending the lease. Did not work out as planned.

[ChrisS]

Seems to me the landowner has had 2 fingers stuck up at him.