Buri Ram monk charged with illegal lottery sales

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Buri Ram monk charged with illegal lottery sales
By The Nation

 

 

BURI RAM: -- A monk in the Northeast was arrested on Friday for allegedly selling tickets in an illegal lottery, his customers reportedly convinced that a monk wouldn’t cheat them.

 

Provincial officials said Phra Yungyuth Hitamo of Wat Pa Rung Arun in Buri Ram’s Mueang district confessed to district clerk Manoonsak Nampratheung that he sold the tickets on behalf of a local minimart in exchange for 5 per cent of the proceeds. 

 

The monk allegedly admitted that most buyers were seeking to make merit and trusted him in the belief he had to adhere to monastic precepts.

 

Investigators found no cash at the monk’s residence – only a large number of old lottery tickets and the residue of burned paper nearby, which could be considered circumstantial evidence. 

 

They opted to pass the matter on to the provincial monastic chief to consider disciplinary punishment.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30317029

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-06-02

[Thaiwrath]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

his customers reportedly convinced that a monk wouldn’t cheat them.

Having gullible customers is a flawless business plan. 

[stanleycoin]

Every week we have stories about naughty monks.

is it news anymore.

[colinneil]

He is a monk, he wont cheat us.

Monks are the worst kind for cheating.

Now becoming a weekly occurence, monks doing wrong, no longer news worthy.

[kannot]

ah the "power of denial"

[kannot]

27 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

Having gullible customers is a flawless business plan. 

Works  now  matter how incredible the story is too..............hence umpteen religions worldwide

[Tilacme]

35 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Every week we have stories about naughty monks.

is it news anymore.

Apathy always plays into the hand of the wrongdoers

[metisdead]

An off topic trolling post has been removed.

[Juan B Tong]

Ah now what to do?  Miscreants commonly become monks for a time.  Perhaps he should spend some time as a lay person.

 

 

[Keesters]

On 6/2/2017 at 2:28 PM, webfact said:

buyers were seeking to make merit and trusted him in the belief he had to adhere to monastic precepts

 

What rock did they crawl from under to make their purchases of an illegal lottery ticket from a man that is supposed to have shed all worldly possessions.