Police are probing the finances of a Buddhist temple after its abbot was caught in a femme fatale sex scandal in Thailand.

The abbot of Wat Nakhon Sawan, who was also the ecclesiastical chief in this lower northern province, left the monkhood just before midnight on Saturday night.It was reported that Phra Thamma ...

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A prominent monk implicated in an alleged embezzlement case involving temple funds and affairs with a woman is based outside ...

Police are investigating a high-ranking monk over allegations he embezzled hundreds of millions of baht in temple donations and engaged in an inappropriate romantic relationship, in a case reminiscent ...

According to AP News, the woman, 35-year-old Wilawan Emsawat — known by the nickname Sika Kor, or "Ms. Golf" — had engaged in ...

The controversy erupted after Phra Thep Wachirapamok—widely known as Arch—the highly respected abbot of Bangkok’s Wat Tri ...

Police said the woman received more than US$11 million as extortion money from monks with whom she had sexual relationships ...

Wilawan Emsawat, 35, known as Sika Golf, is accused of blackmailing some of the country's most senior monks by threatening to ...

Wilawan Emsawat, 35, known as Sika Golf, is accused of extorting and blackmailing senior monks at popular temples in several ...

A 35-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly sleeping with Buddhist monks to scam them out of money. In a case that shocked Thailand, becoming known as the ‘monk sex scandal ’, nine senior ...

Thai police have arrested a 35-year-old woman who allegedly filmed herself having sex with Buddhist monks and then ...