How one woman blackmail monks wit videos afta she do kerewa wit dem
Di woman, wey police dey call "Ms Golf", bin do kerewa wit at least nine monks, police tok for one press conference on Tuesday, 15 July.
Dem believe say she receive around 385 million baht ($11.9m; £8.8m) ova di past three years.
Investigators wey search her house see more dan 80,000 fotos and videos she dey use blackmail di monks, police tok-tok pesin tok.
Dis scandal na di latest to rock Thailand much respected Buddhist institution, wey in recent years don face plenty allegations of how monks dey engage in sex offences and drug trafficking.
Police say di case bin first come dia attention for mid-June, wen dem hear say one abbot for Bangkok suddenly leave di monkhood afta one woman extort am.
Di woman, wey police dey call "Ms Golf", bin do kerewa wit at least nine monks, police tok for one press conference on Tuesday, 15 July.
Dem believe say she receive around 385 million baht ($11.9m; £8.8m) ova di past three years.
Investigators wey search her house see more dan 80,000 fotos and videos she dey use blackmail di monks, police tok-tok pesin tok.
Dis scandal na di latest to rock Thailand much respected Buddhist institution, wey in recent years don face plenty allegations of how monks dey engage in sex offences and drug trafficking.
Police say di case bin first come dia attention for mid-June, wen dem hear say one abbot for Bangkok suddenly leave di monkhood afta one woman extort am.
Ms Golf "bin get relationship" wit di monk for May 2024, police tok. She later claim say she get pikin for am and demand for child support of more dan seven million baht, dem add.
Authorities later discover say oda monks bin don also transfer money give Ms Golf – wey police call her "modus operandi".
Police add say dem see say she don withdraw almost all di money, and she use some of dem for online gambling.
Wen investigators search Ms Golf house earlier dis month, dem seize her phones and found see more dan 80,000 fotos and videos wey she dey use blackmail di monks, police tok.
She dey face multiple charges wey include extortion, money laundering and receiving stolen goods.
Police don also open hotline for pipo to report "monks wey dey misbehave".
Di scandal don make di Sangha Supreme Council - di governing body for Thai Buddhism – tok say dem go form special committee to review monastic regulations.
Di govment also dey push for harsher penalties – wey include fines and jail time - for monks wey breach di monastic code.
Dis week, Thailand King Vajiralongkorn bin revoke one royal command wey e issue for June wey e confer higher titles to 81 monks. E say di reason e cancel am na sake of di recent cases of misconduct, wey e say don "cause Buddhists to suffer greatly for dia minds".
For Thailand, wia more dan 90% of di population identify as Buddhist, monks dey highly revered. Many Thai men also choose to temporarily ordain as monks to accumulate good karma.
But in recent years, di Buddhist institution don dey plagued by scandals.
Wirapol Sukphol, one jet-setting monk wey dey known for im lavish lifestyle, bin make international headlines for 2017 wen e dey charged wit sex offences, fraud and money laundering. And for 2022, one temple for di northern province of Phetchabun dey left without any monks afta police arrest all dia four monks for inside one drug raid and dem disrobe dem.
Sex dey out of bounds for monks
Buddhists monks na veri important pipo for Buddhism religion and dem dey live for monasteries.
Dis na place wia many monks dey stay so dem go fit get away from distractions of di world to enable dem show complete devotion to di Buddhist way of life.
For monasteries, monks dey spend time to practice dia spirituality and meditate on di teachings of di Buddha wit di hope say dem go reach enlightenment.
Monks dey live simple life as dem focus dia time on studying, dem suppose even touch money, and sex dey strictly out of bounds.
To see monks wey dey behave badly no dey new for Thailand. Di temptations of modern life don throw up many examples of monks wey get big money, monks wey dey take drugs, dey dance and dey enjoy sexual relations wit men and women or even abusing girls and boys.
Temples also dey wey don attract large and dedicated followings, through skilful promotion of charismatic monks and abbots, wey dem say get supernatural powers.
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