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When someone owes someone else a sum of money and they are NOT paying it back, they don't even intend to give it back to the lender, it is kind of suppressing, right? But I don't feel it is natural to say:
He suppressed my money.
I don't know why it sounds a little weird to me, maybe because you suppress someone's right, as I've read but do we suppress someone's property too, e.g. money?
It's not "suppressing", that doesn't fit any of the dictionary definitions.
"Withhold" is possible: "He withheld my money". It means "refuse to give (back) something that that is due or expected." Or simply "He didn't pay his debt."
