Two senior monks have been released without charge after answering questions in connection to a temple fund embezzlement and money-laundering scheme.
The monks, one from Lop Buri province in central Thailand, and the other from Nonthaburi province, deny any wrongdoing.
Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat Pankaew, commander of the police Anti-Corruption Division and police investigators, yesterday met with the abbot of Wat Kawisararam in Lop Buri, Phra Thep Senabodi, and the abbot of Wat Bang Oychang in Bang Kruay district of Nonthaburi, Phra Udomsitthinayok.
Both abbots denied they were involved in any embezzlement, or a money-laundering scheme, involving former senior officials at the National Office of Buddhism and monks, and were released from custody.
A police investigation discovered that a 30 million baht donation to the temple fund in 2014, to support the education of monks and novices,…
