Prosecutions for those who help pairForensic experts collect evidence at Wat Sa Ket on Friday as police are hunting abbot Phra Phrom Sitthi and Wat Samphanthawong assistant abbot Phra Phrom Methee. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)Police are threatening legal action against anyone who provides shelter for the two senior monks who are wanted for alleged temple fund embezzlement and still at large. Crime Suppression Division (CSD) chief Pol Maj Gen Maitree Chimcherd said that police are ramping up the search of the two senior monks -- Wat Sa Ket abbot Phra Phrom Sitthi, and Wat Samphanthawong assistant abbot Phra Phrom Methee. Crime Suppression police arrested five senior monks in predawn raids on three temples in Bangkok on Thursday. At Wat Sam Phraya, they took into custody abbot Phra Phrom Dilok and his secretary Phra Atthakit Sophon.

Source: Bangkok Post May 26, 2018 22:58 UTC