From what I've heard the Vietnamese media went crazy trying to contact him, organise meetings, put his family into the media spotlight. Vietnam's still a commun

From what I've heard the Vietnamese media went crazy trying to contact him, organise meetings, put his family into the media spotlight. Vietnam's still a communist state, don't forget - making this kind of money puts unwanted attention on him from state and from organised criminals in the area. I bet his family didn't want that kind of attention.