Nine people, including seven Buddhist monks, have been arrested by Thai authorities for allegedly embezzling about 300 million baht in donations to a temple in Thailand’s north-east.
The first arrests took place last Friday when police detained a monk, Kom Kongkaew, his sister and Wat Pa Thammakhiri’s abbot. Police said Kom and the abbot withdrew money from the temple’s account and gave it to Kom’s sister to be deposited into her own account. According to the police, the abbot said Kom advised the monks to use some of the stolen funds to purchase jewellery.But a raid conducted by the police at the temple on Tuesday morning uncovered the assets worth 100 million baht, which included cash and jewellery, some of which were buried underground and in the monks’ private quarters.The Nation reported that Kom was popular for his “rhetorical style of preaching”, which attracted a lot of devotees.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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