Temple raided in Prachinburi: 10 million baht in cash and jewels stolen from the abbot

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Temple raided in Prachinburi: 10 million baht in cash and jewels stolen from the abbot

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Sri Maha Bodhi police were called to the temple of Wat Prathum Bucha, Prachinburi, after the abbot reported that his quarters had been ransacked. 

 

Missing was more than 300,000 baht in cash though the thief or thieves somehow missed a further 700,000 in a couple of safes.

 

Jewels worth ten million baht were also gone. 

 

Investigators noticed that an outside door was forced and that the abbot's bag in his sitting room had been rifled. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Missing was some of the money from a 50,000 baht withdrawal he had made earlier.

 

A bedroom door and two safes inside the bedroom had also been forced. 

 

A total of 700,000 baht in the safes was not seen.

 

But 300,000 baht stashed at the head of the bed was stolen. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Jewels to the tune of 10 million baht that 77kaoded said had been donated to the temple by the faithful, were also missing. 

 

Whoever stole all that disappeared without a trace. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[JoePai]

and why was the cash not in a bank - answers on a postcard please

[Meat Pie 47]

Who needs to rob a bank this days just rob the nearest Wat

[Grumpy one]

For any one thinking of robbing a gold shop, change your plans

Temples seem to offer more with less security

10,000,000 baht in jewels seems a bit over the top to me, are  the monks robbing the dead prior to cremation

[CorpusChristie]

With that kind of money laying around , I do hope that the Temples Monks were not walking around asking for food/donations 

[worgeordie]

The 300,000 Thb, maybe just the days takings,

Buddha must be spinning in Nirvana,to see the

commercialisation of what he preached.

regards worgeordie  

[Jack Hna]

Remember the gunman earlier this year and then a spate of amateur copy cats.

 

Guess what happens next.

 

 

[tomazbodner]

7 minutes ago, Jack Hna said:

Remember the gunman earlier this year and then a spate of amateur copy cats.

 

Guess what happens next.

 

 

Local bar girls get golden necklaces?

[TLeaf]

God moves in mysterious way.  Like nicking stuff and buying weed and hookers.

[RichardColeman]

The gullibility and acceptance of the Thai people of these orange clad freeloading clowns is truly outstanding

[sammieuk1]

He looks like one angry abbot as the guy in the red shirt is planning his escape ????

[clos88]

the new normal thanks to the overreactive government shutdowns.  FOR all those in favor of this insane overreach ...this is just the beginning. 

 

when people have lost everything

and have nothing to loose ..... 

they loose it.

 

 

 

      

 

[AlfHuy]

21 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

He looks like one angry abbot as the guy in the red shirt is planning his escape ????

he looks farang

[rkidlad]

21 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

He looks like one angry abbot as the guy in the red shirt is planning his escape ????

No, no, no. He's not angry. He's an abbot. He doesn't care about material items and wealth. He finds true happiness from within. I'm surprised he even told anyone. 

[colinneil]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Whoever stole all that disappeared without a trace. 

Leaving behind his saffron robes.

What the hell was all that money and jewels doing there in the first place?

I think the abbot is telling porkies, probably a few thousand baht, but exaggerated to make it sound worse.

[Bender Rodriguez]

say what now?  monks are supposed to ... 

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, colinneil said:

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Whoever stole all that disappeared without a trace. 

Leaving behind his saffron robes.

What the hell was all that money and jewels doing there in the first place?

I think the abbot is telling porkies, probably a few thousand baht, but exaggerated to make it sound worse.

Perhaps there was something extraterrestrial going on, and he disappeared in a puff of smoke to another dimension.

Apart from the robes, there was buggar-all left.

[Emdog]

Why would any person or institution keep that amount on premises? Keep it "off the books" away from officials knowing about it if put in a bank.

Similar to problem drug dealers have. Millions molding away in basement because can't be deposited in bank.

I would like to see some firm investigation as to the "why" of all this cash being at wat

But that ain't gonna happen

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

We just had the Thai guy in Pattaya do a temple robbery to fund his Pattaya bars and bar girls outing with lots of loose, laying around temple cash.

 

Now like a week later we have an even larger theft, once again with lots and lots of temple cash laying around and now jewels being added to the booty.

 

Perhaps the government ought to be looking to the country's countless temples to fund its failing CV economic relief measures for the people. It would seem the temples have more free money than the government does!!!

 

 

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[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

We just had the Thai guy in Pattaya do a temple robbery to fund his Pattaya bars and bar girls outing with lots of loose, laying around temple cash.

 

Now like a week later we have an even larger theft, once again with lots and lots of temple cash laying around and now jewels being added to the booty.

 

Perhaps the government ought to be looking to the country's many temples to fund its failing CV economic relief measures. It would seem the temples have more free money than the government does!!!

Pennies from heaven.

Forget the phrase drive-by-shootings, it appears we have a new improved one: Pray-by-theft.

[Justgrazing]

That safe might be fire resistant but against tealeaf's not so much .. 

[Justgrazing]

53 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Pennies from heaven.

Forget the phrase drive-by-shootings, it appears we have a new improved one: Pray-by-theft.

Let us prey then ..

[bluesofa]

37 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Let us prey then ..

I'm on my knees already.

[PatOngo]

Time to build a spaceship!

 

 

 

[ronaldo0]

I thought monks were meant to have to materialistic belongings and take nothing to do with money etc ?

Yet they all seem to have several of the latest phones , ray ban sunglasses , smoke , have houses and even cars ! 

[Dumbastheycome]

2 hours ago, Emdog said:

Why would any person or institution keep that amount on premises? Keep it "off the books" away from officials knowing about it if put in a bank.

Similar to problem drug dealers have. Millions molding away in basement because can't be deposited in bank.

I would like to see some firm investigation as to the "why" of all this cash being at wat

But that ain't gonna happen

"Books" ?

[Happyman567]

3 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

With that kind of money laying around , I do hope that the Temples Monks were not walking around asking for food/donations 

They would be

[bluesofa]

23 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Time to build a spaceship!

Does that mean it's only susceptible to attack only from aliens?

That must mean we're ahead of the game for once.

[bluesofa]

17 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

2 hours ago, Emdog said:

Why would any person or institution keep that amount on premises? Keep it "off the books" away from officials knowing about it if put in a bank.

Similar to problem drug dealers have. Millions molding away in basement because can't be deposited in bank.

I would like to see some firm investigation as to the "why" of all this cash being at wat

But that ain't gonna happen

"Books" ?

Perhaps you mean 'books' like American author L. Ron Hubbard who wrote science fiction books.

Then he said the way to make real money was to start a religion, so he started scientology which proved him correct.

Same-same but different.

[PatOngo]

12 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Does that mean it's only susceptible to attack only from aliens?

That must mean we're ahead of the game for once.

I think that's only a myth!