Firebrand Thai Monk Charged Over Amulet Fraud
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published May 25, 2018 | 12:31 PM
A firebrand Buddhist monk has been disrobed after being charged over the sale of amulets with fake royal seals,
Bangkok, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th May, 2018 ) :A firebrand Buddhist monk has been disrobed after being charged over the sale of amulets with fake royal seals, Thai police said Friday, a dramatic fall from grace for a cleric who helped lead protests that toppled the former government.
The junta that seized power in 2014 after those protests has in recent months taken a strong line with Thailand's powerful Buddhist clergy after several major financial scandals. But the arrest of Luang Pu Buddha Issara, who ran a key Bangkok protest camp in the months before the coup, has surprised a public used to the monk's pro-junta diatribes.
He was charged with faking endorsements by revered late King Bhumibol of sacred amulets he was selling online, according to Major General Maitri Chimcherd, the commander of the Crime Suppression Division.
"The court denied his bail request," Maitri said, adding that he was defrocked. The complaint emerged after a collector of amulets, highly prized as lucky charms in Thailand, found the monk's website was selling items purporting to have palace support.
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