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Amend the Sangha Act
News, Published on 26/05/2018
» If three senior ministers are charged with corruption simultaneously, the government they serve must be suffering a crisis of credibility. It is the same for the country's highest governing body of monastic affairs, the Sangha Supreme Council (SSC), whose three "cabinet" members, along with other two monks, are accused of siphoning and laundering temple money to enrich themselves.
Ex Sangha councillors arraigned
Online Reporters, Published on 16/08/2018
» Public prosecutors arraigned ex-Sangha Supreme Councillors and others in court on Wednesday on charges of embezzling temple development funds and money laundering.
NLA passes amended Sangha bill
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 05/07/2018
» An amendment bill aimed at extensively curbing the powerful Sangha Council has cruised through the National Legislative Assembly without a single vote against it.
Sangha city chief mum on fraud
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/04/2018
» Phra Phrom Dilok, chief of Bangkok's Sangha administrative body and one of five senior Buddhist monks accused of involvement in a temple fund embezzlement scandal, is staying tight-lipped about the accusation.
Arrests not enough to reform Thai Sangha
News, Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Published on 31/05/2018
» The early morning of May 24 was the morning of the long knives for the Thai Sangha. Commandos stormed Wat Or Noi in Nakhon Pathom to arrest the abbot, then Phra Buddha Isara, a staunch supporter of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). In an unrelated case, five of seven other senior monks accused of embezzlement and money laundering were arrested from three famous temples in Bangkok. The other two remain on the run.
Imprisoned former Sangha councillor sick, very stressed
King-oua Laohong, Published on 31/05/2018
» Former abbot Phra Phrom Sitthi of Wat Sa Ket is more depressed than the other former senior monks being detained for alleged temple fund fraud, the Bangkok Remand Prison chief said on Thursday.
Expelled Sangha Supreme Councillor fled to Laos
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/06/2018
» Former Sangha Supreme Council member Phra Phrom Methee fled to Laos after avoiding arrest over the temple funds embezzlement scandal and police are now seeking his extradition.
Sangha scandal: A year of shattered faith
Post Reporters, Published on 25/12/2025
» In 2025, Thailand’s Buddhist establishment came under its most intense legal and institutional scrutiny in decades, following a wave of confirmed criminal investigations involving senior monks nationwide.
Fate of talk-show monks 'rests with Sangha Council
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/09/2021
» The Supreme Sangha Council (SSC) will decide if two celebrity monks accused of bringing the monkhood into disrepute by appearing to mock the government during a live-streamed event should face punishment, PM’s Office Minister Anucha Nakasai said on Tuesday.
Fate of talk-show monks 'rests with Sangha Council'
News, Mongkol Bangprapa & aekarach sattaburuth, Published on 08/09/2021
» The Supreme Sangha Council (SSC) will decide if two celebrity monks accused of bringing the monkhood into disrepute by appearing to mock the government during a live-streamed event should face punishment, PM's Office MinisterAnucha Nakasai said yesterday.