Soldiers Find Guns, Nearly 1 Mil. Baht In Temple Raid

[Lite Beer]

Soldiers Find Guns, Nearly 1 Mil. Baht In Temple Raid

By Khaosod Eng.

SUKHOTAI — Soldiers confiscated nearly one million baht in cash and several firearms during a surprise raid on a Buddhist temple in Sukhotai province this morning.

Maj.Gen. Padung Yingpaiboonsook, a local commander of the junta's National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), conducted the raid of Sawang Arom Temple following complaints from local residents about the "inappropriate behaviour" of monks at the temple.

Soldiers said they found two firearms, radio equipment, pornographic materials, and approximately 966,000 baht in cash in the search.

Read More: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1411734242

-- Khaosod English 2014-09-27

[halloween]

The new broom continues to sweep clean.

[Somtamnication]

Oh my Thai Bhudda. Can't make this up!

[Neeranam]

Some here want to crucify monks for owning a mobile telephone.

[smutcakes]

I am sure they can find more cash and similar contraband at nearly every temple in Thailand.

[binnsy1]

The new broom continues to sweep clean.

Whould it not be a good idea to send them to KT to sort out the sh*t out there?

[Bluespunk]

1 million baht, just make sure they don't hand it over to the BIB or it may never have existed.

[JOC]

Since when is it illegal to have cash??

900k is not exatly a fortune today.

[ekkamai]

Elections next year? They need a lot more time for this general clean-up. A huge task.

[jaltsc]

It appears that some monks are renouncing everything except greed, violence and smut.

Edited September 28, 2014 by jaltsc

[IMA_FARANG]

Since when is it illegal to have cash??

900k is not exatly a fortune today.

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An ordained monk takes as one of his precepts not to handle cash.

Therefore an ordained monk should not have cash in his personal possession..

Cash in a Wat as that held for a charitable purpose, should NOT be held by individuals, but by a person specifically appointed for that purpose.

Usually that would be a senior monk, and his use and keeping of cash for charitable purposes would be known to everyone in the Wat.

It would be his appointed function, only he should handle such funds.

Edited September 28, 2014 by IMA_FARANG

[coma]

About time they started targeting and cleaning up the rort that is being a monk in many temples in Thailand. Temples. The place one runs to when hiding from police.

[Just1Voice]

Let's face it, there is nothing in Thailand that ISN'T corrupt. It's embedded in their societal conscious from birth. Lie and cheat if it will benefit you is the rule. Never accept responsibility for anything is the code. What makes it so bad when monks are involved is that they are SUPPOSED to be the spiritual leaders, the "moral consciousness" of the people. So when these people are morally corrupt, what hope is there for the average person?

[wdr]

How many of 7Eleven Electronic Burse cards they found?

[ToddinChonburi]

OK what were they doing wrong ? OH the porno mags, shame shame . Maybe they should turn to little boys like the cathelic preists.

[Bluespunk]

OK what were they doing wrong ? OH the porno mags, shame shame . Maybe they should turn to little boys like the cathelic preists.

Perhaps this might be the problem

"Cpt. Chirapat Sonsakul, deputy commander of the NCPO's intelligence unit in the province, said the abbot collected the money by soliciting donations from local residents, ostensibly to repair one of the chapels on the compound. However, the renovation never took place and the abbot and his deputy pocketed the money for themselves, Cpt. Chirapat said.

Cpt. Chirapat said the abbot will be prosecuted for possessing unregistered firearms and conducting donation fraud."

The unregistered guns alone should be a cause for concern.

[casindonet]

Just hope so this time they don't hand over the suspect + money to the BIBs, like they did with the last casino raid.....

[iReason]

Religion. The last refuge of scoundrels.

George Orwell

[jaapfries]

About time they started targeting and cleaning up the rort that is being a monk in many temples in Thailand. Temples. The place one runs to when hiding from police.

There are REAL monks and then there are NOT-REAL monks.

The NOT-REAL monks will discover all about Karma soon enough, trust me.

[Emster23]

Farangs must have left it. Waiting for police chief to say "No Thai would ever do this!".

[schondie]

These sort of stories keep me entertained. Stories like these disappeared out of the press for a few years but I'm glad to see them coming back.

Stories such as temple abbots dressing up as army personnel and getting caught in karaoke bars have been out the news for too long. May the army continue these sort of crackdowns on temples.

[GuyL]

OK what were they doing wrong ? OH the porno mags, shame shame . Maybe they should turn to little boys like the cathelic preists.

Little boys and little girls are not safer here, as it seems, alas!

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=1,1845,0,0,1,0

A social worker recalls a case in the northern province of Phayao which took place in 2000. It involved a five-year-old girl who was sexually abused by people around her - her grandfather, who took care of her after her parents divorced, her uncles and a senior monk in a temple which the girl visited and where she played with her older cousin.

The social worker said the girl liked to play at the temple as monks and temple-goers gave her food and toys.

One evening her aunt noticed the girl's private parts were red and swollen. She was taken to hospital, and the doctor concluded that she had been raped.

``When we interviewed her, the girl told us what the senior monk at the temple had done to her. But that's not all. She said her grandfather and uncles did the same thing.

``It seems like they saw her as a sex object with which they could do anything. What is worse is that the girl has become so familiar with sexual abuse that she thinks it is common, like eating rice.

[phanangpete]

What happened to that monk who had forty or so luxury cars.

I expect nothing !

[ezzra]

Since when is it illegal to have cash??

900k is not exatly a fortune today.

----------------------------

An ordained monk takes as one of his precepts not to handle cash.

Therefore an ordained monk should not have cash in his personal possession..

Cash in a Wat as that held for a charitable purpose, should NOT be held by individuals, but by a person specifically appointed for that purpose.

Usually that would be a senior monk, and his use and keeping of cash for charitable purposes would be known to everyone in the Wat.

It would be his appointed function, only he should handle such funds.

Now days, sadly, greed and race to riches and the taste of the good life have blinded may good men, be it

police, army, government officials, monks and abbots, no one is immune from it...

[amse]

So where's the photo of the monks with cops ponting fingers at them?

[55Jay]

What happened to that monk who had forty or so luxury cars.

I expect nothing !

According to Post #19, sounds like the worst that can happen is a bad case of Karma at some point in the future but if he's one of those NOT-REAL monks, they he doesn't believe in that rubbish anyway. So, in other words, nothing.

[Upset]

Please also check the temples in Samui and rid Thailand of the garbage there.

[h90]

Elections next year? They need a lot more time for this general clean-up. A huge task.

and they need to clean up at the important people, not at some no name temple.....Shinawatra family?

[KOZMO]

Some here want to crucify monks for owning a mobile telephone.

Plus a private jet, helicopter, $300 million us dollars a kid and a wife???? Definitely a tribute to his religion!!!

[surinderek]

So where's the photo of the monks with cops ponting fingers at them?

fled the scence

with hands full of notes ?