Clue points to wanted ex-abbot in hiding abroad: DSI

By The Nation

 

 

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has found a clue that Phra Dhammachayo, the ex-abbot of Pathum Thani’s Dhammakaya Temple, wanted for a high-profile money-laundering case and separate land encroachments, was in hiding abroad.
 

The agency is checking the credibility of the clue before doing anything that might waste the state budget, DSI deputy chief Pol Major Suriya Singhakamon said on Friday.

 

Suriya also said that DSI officials, along with Pathum Thani senior monks and National Office of Buddhism representatives, had conducted an unannounced search of the temple on Wednesday night.

 

They found that the ex-abbot’s room in Daowadeung Building had no sign of anyone using it. He said the search was arranged in secret with unidentified monks who cooperated with the DSI request to check on the premises and to check on a report that some migrants were camping there.

 

A source from the DSI search operation said the agency had not previously conducted a search at the temple at night and needed to do so in order to compare what they found to the temple’s condition during the last daytime search.

 

The ex-abbot’s room appeared clean and unused, he said, although some items were reportedly moved.

 

The source said all evidence collected during the search was submitted for forensic tests.

 

The source added that investigators noticed that many monks had set up tents around the temple ground but would not commend as to why they would not sleep in the monks’ buildings.

 

DSI would now investigate the temple’s monks and close disciples who had records of travelling overseas, the source said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30334542

 

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The whole setting seems like a new trendy global hide 'n' seek game.... Thai crooks hiding abroad, foreign crooks hiding in Thailand...

So.............who drove him to the border???

They must have found a postcard from  him at the temple, from somewhere

exotic, with the message  "Wish you were here,having a great time, the Abbot.

regards worgeordie

The D.S.I. wouldnt know a clue if it was in front of them.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

wanted for a high-profile money-laundering case and separate land encroachments, was in hiding abroad.

why why why in the world not?

bout a thousand places better than here if you have gazi-millions

 

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

So.............who drove him to the border???

Border? The abbot was beamed up, up and away, never to appear in Thailand again.

So if he was hiding a broad, did they get her identity? Oops, never mind...


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3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

So.............who drove him to the border???

LOL Those cops moonlighting as taxi drivers again.

7 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

LOL Those cops moonlighting as taxi drivers again.

Or is that taxi drivers playing cops? 

9 hours ago, observer90210 said:

The whole setting seems like a new trendy global hide 'n' seek game.... Thai crooks hiding abroad, foreign crooks hiding in Thailand...

 

Or a Pokemon Go mod...

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has found a clue

I congratulate the DSI on their clue. You have to cherish it and make it feel appreciated, now that you found it. May you have more clues in the future. Don't kill them in holding cells, or anywhere else.

They finally checked immigration....he left long ago:))

I would hate to think that DSI was "clueless". 

19 hours ago, Artisi said:

Or is that taxi drivers playing cops? 

Too hard to tell... a very interchangeable people’s. 

I guess they could report a Blue or Red notice to Interpol, but it seems like Interpol simply thumbs their noses at Thailand.
Wonder why?