Thai PM Anutin’s US$90,000 amulet back in spotlight after disgraced monk’s arrest
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- South China Morning Postseen 11 Sept, 13:21headline rewritten
Thai PM Anutin under fire over US$90,000 amulet linked to disgraced monkThai PM Anutin’s US$90,000 amulet back in spotlight after disgraced monk’s arrest
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Fri, 11 September 2026
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Thai PM Anutin under fire over US$90,000 amulet linked to disgraced monkThai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has come under intense social media scrutiny after photos resurfaced showing him wearing a high-value amulet created by a senior monk now at the centre of a fraud and sex scandal. The photos were taken in October 2023 while Anutin – then serving as deputy prime minister and interior minister – was leading a group of Bhumjaithai Party MPs to watch the hit horror-comedy The Undertaker, local outlet ThaiRath reported. Anutin publicly displayed the Thai...
- BBC News World10:50first to report
Thai police also arrested a suspected female accomplice with whom the monk, who had taken a vow of celibacy, was filmed having sex.
- Novinky (Czechia)14:53
Thajská policie ve čtvrtek zadržela bývalého opata buddhistického chrámu Wat Pchuttchaisawan Phru Vačirajana Vího. Ten je podezřelý ze zpronevěry 100 milionů bahtů z klášterní kasy (63,3 milionu korun). Po zadržení byl zbaven kněžského úřadu. Podezřelá v případu je i žena, se kterou měl navzdory mnišskému celibátu pohlavní styk.
- The Guardian World15:01
Phra Wachirayan Wi arrested alongside woman he was filmed having sex with in latest scandal to hit country’s clergy Police in Thailand have arrested a senior Buddhist monk on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m intended for his monastery, alongside a suspected female accomplice he was filmed having sex with. The case is the latest scandal to hit the clergy in the Buddhist-majority country, after a sex and extortion case involving senior monks last year prompted public outrage and calls for greater...