TechFlow News, April 29: According to the Daily Mail, Quentin Griffiths, co-founder of ASOS, died on February 9 after falling from a building in Pattaya, Thailand. Within days of his death, approximately $4 million (roughly £2.7 million) worth of Bitcoin from Griffiths’ wallet was transferred in three separate transactions to unknown addresses. Thai police have launched an investigation into the matter.
Griffiths’ eldest son, Joel, filed a police report about six weeks after his father’s death. Lawyer Mona Mankong stated that the funds were transferred to “mysterious addresses” whose destinations remain unknown, and raised questions about whether Joel himself held access credentials to the wallet. Last October, a Thai court convicted Griffiths of fraud—stemming from allegations that he forged documents to unlawfully remove his former wife, Ploy Kringsinthanakun, from her position as director of the family property company—and sentenced him to 18 months’ imprisonment. Griffiths was released pending appeal and had been scheduled to meet with his ex-wife’s lawyer two days before his fatal fall. Thai authorities’ investigation concluded that his death involved no suspicious circumstances or third-party involvement.
Meanwhile, the Griffiths family remains embroiled in a legal dispute over custody of the children born to Griffiths and Ploy. Joel has applied to bring the children back to the UK for upbringing, while Ploy insists on exercising full custody rights in Thailand.
