Problem solved: Thai man swears he won’t touch Cambodian wife’s lottery windfall

[webfact]

Problem solved: Thai man swears he won’t touch Cambodian wife’s lottery windfall

By The Nation

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A dispute between a Cambodian woman and her Thai husband in Rayong was resolved on Monday when the man gave his word in front of police that he wouldn’t touch the Bt6 million she’d won in a lottery.

 

Paitoon, 39, whose surname was withheld, told police he only signed his name to the back of his wife’s two first-prize-winning lottery tickets in case they were misplaced and someone else tried to claim them.

 

He had no intention of demanding a share in the winnings, he said.

 

The signatures are what sent Huen, 38, to the police station on Sunday. She said he refused to let her sign either ticket.

 

But she bought them with her own money, was in Thailand legally and bought the tickets legally and her husband had no right to share in the proceeds, she said.

 

She’d called him home on Saturday to tell him she’d won big and he immediately signed his name on the tickets, Huen said.

 

“I swear I just signed them to prevent them from getting lost,” Paitoon insisted to police, and his wife could keep all the money.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353596

 

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[George Bowman]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

“I swear I just signed them to prevent them from getting lost,” Paitoon insisted to police, and his wife could keep all the money.

Could be true. In my family the wife does seems to keep most of the money anyway...

[Esso49]

4 minutes ago, missoura said:

Could be true. In my family the wife does seems to keep most of the money anyway...

Simply because no Thai women ever trusts a Thai man ,  never mind a Cambodian unlucky enough to have married one.  But still her luck has changed now by the looks of it.

[Andrew Dwyer]

The fact that he signed them seems quite normal after the lottery fiasco recently .
But, the fact that he refused to let her sign them is suspect and she did the right thing by involving the police and media.

Maybe she will relent and lend him a couple of hundred baht !! [emoji51]

[mercman24]

what happened to married life, whats your is mine, whats mine is my own he he, where money is involved, my UK bitch had nothing when i married her, ended up giving her one of my houses lol same, same, the world over

[AhFarangJa]

Obviously a very loving, devoted , trustworthy , happy marriage........?

[smew]

Thai man swearing means nothing, it will be quite the opposite as time willl show soon.

Advice to wife: run fast before he knocks you off!

[Briggsy]

Is that the husband in the photo? He is wearing a police jacket.

[trianglechoke]

He wont need to touch it...

He can use her credit card... technically not touching the actual money physically

[Rhys]

...code.. it is mine.. 

[trianglechoke]

He wont need to touch it...

He can use her credit card... technically not touching the actual money physically

[greenchair]

Whose money did she buy them with? ?

Isn't it marital property? 

[Darcula]

On 9/3/2018 at 7:11 AM, webfact said:

Thai man swears he won’t touch Cambodian wife’s lottery windfall

Good enough for me. A Thai man's word is as good as his bond.

[Vacuum]

8 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Is that the husband in the photo? He is wearing a police jacket.

Some of them have wifes.

[jimcarr65]

If Cambodian women are anything like Thai women that I have met and married, the money will be gone in a year.