PUBLISHED: 6 May 2024 at 13: 56
Regulators will look into whether a Thai lady is immediately gain money from her French director, who was just discovered dead at her house in Koh Samui.
No foul play was soon suspected, but a spacecraft is being conducted into Catherine Delacote’s creation of a villa-style hotel on Koh Samui area in Surat Thani state, according to Col Dusit Kaysornkaew, mind of the 4th Army’s property investigative unit.
The ill 59- year- old French woman reportedly committed suicide, leaving assets totalling about 100 million baht to Nutwalai Pupongta, 49, her housemaid of 17 years.
Col. Dusit claimed that a preliminary investigation revealed that the hotel had been legally constructed, but that no one from the late French woman’s company that owned it had yet to do so.
The company, GVNE, had three shareholders. Delacote had a 49 % stake and two Thais held the remainder, a Thai man from Ubon Ratchthani had a 35 % stake and a Thai woman from Nakhon Si Thammarat had a 16 % shareholding.
Officials in charge of investigating whether the business engaged in illegal proxies in Thailand would learn from Col Dusit.
GVNE was established in April 2012 to operate a hotel, according to sources. The late French woman held the office’s sole statutory director position.
On April 29, the French woman who had divorced her French husband was discovered dead near a pool in the posh villa complex. A pistol was discovered at the scene and the body had a bullet hole through the temple.
An estate executor could allocate the late woman’s assets in accordance with her will, according to Koh Samui police chief Pol Col Krairoek Ngamsri.
Ratchapol Pulsawasdi, president of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui, said the two Thai shareholders in Catherine’s company might have to approve the transfer of the assets.
The Interior Ministry could sell its assets if a business included a proxy shareholder in an unlawful manner, according to Niphit Intharasombat, a lawyer and former politician.
The hotel belonging to the late French woman ( photo: Supapong Chaolan )