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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cd28c1997cc491fd9c1651b2276d2d9b wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Police in Thailand raided the property on January 27 they were acting on tips that the monks possessed firearms and drugs</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4e82f16e68942608b6d6eaaaf7244f10 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Dramatic footage of the raid on the Phrom Sunthon Monastery in Chonburi province shows officers combing through the bedrooms</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-75ff188323d0686310994c73f2b02b10 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Cops found $2,827 in cash, a pistol, a penis enlargement pump, a contact list of prostitutes, and a DVD player with a porn disc still loaded inside </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-49514470bd9b1b9a9b83a26cafe805ed wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Four monks &#8211; Phra Supachai Jantawong, 35, Phra Wirat Mukdasanit, 45, and Phra Thanapol Maison, 59, and the temple Abbott, Phra Photisang Taebmuan &#8211; were arrested </strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64f4e911b9c5362d6707f390d0d9a360 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>According to police sources it was discovered that the abbot <strong><strong>Taebmuan</strong></strong></strong></strong>, <strong><strong>was a Korean national who was unregistered in civil records</strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cdd299d12187de7c70fbcbd1bf013e5c wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong>Three monks who tested positive for methamphetamine, will be sent to rehab </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7bf8badb50843087f64f6d831bd769c1 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0303;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Deemed to have violated their monastic vows, the four monks were defro</strong>cked and banned from the religion</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Police raided the Phrom Sunthon Monastery in Chonburi province of Thailand on January 27, in response to reports that the Buddhist monks possessed firearms and drugs.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On January 27, police descended on the Phrom Sunthon Monastery in Chonburi province of Thailand. Officers uncovered a stash of porn, sex toys, a penis pump, and an escort list was found during a police raid at their temple in Thailand.<br>Four of the Buddhist monks were arrested. The religious leaders are said to have violated their monastic vows as they kept the banned items at the monastery. <br>Friday&#8217;s raid was in response to reports that these members of a religious order possessed firearms and drugs.<br>In footage from the raid officers are seen combing through the bedrooms. They found $2,827 in cash, a pistol, a penis enlargement pump, a contact list of prostitutes, and a DVD player with a porn disc still loaded inside.<br>Three of the monks also allegedly tested positive for methamphetamine.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Thai police arrested Buddhist monks Phra Supachai Jantawong, 35, Phra Wirat Mukdasanit, 45, and Phra Thanapol Maison, 59, along with the temple Abbott, Phra Photisang Taebmuan, during the temple on Friday, Jan. 27</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Officers arrested Phra Supachai Jantawong, 35, Phra Wirat Mukdasanit, 45, and Phra Thanapol Maison, 59, along with the temple abbott, Phra Photisang Taebmuan, who was found to be a Korean national unregistered in civil records.<br>All four monks have since been defrocked and banned from the religion.<br>Colonel Saksilp Kamnoedsin of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) of Chonburi said the raid was carried out after villagers complained of alleged drug and firearm use on temple grounds.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Thai police officer holds up a penis enlargement pump, found by cops combing through the bedrooms, during the raid on the monastery </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He said: &#8216;The three monks found to be using drugs will be sent to the police and relevant authorities for rehabilitation.<br>&#8216;The abbot will be handed over to the police for questioning and then deported to his country of origin.&#8217;<br>One of the alleged drug users, 35-year-old Phra Supachai said his approximately three-year methamphetamine habit was intended &#8216;to manage body pain from diabetes and high blood pressure&#8217;.<br>He said: &#8216;It&#8217;s for relieving nerve pain. When the pain is really bad, I take these kinds of pills. But I only use it for really severe pain.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Other shocking items recovered from these members of the religious order <strong>at the Phrom Sunthon Mon</strong>astery, include a player with a porn DVD still inserted, drugs and a list of escorts. Deemed to have violated their monastic vows, the four monks were defrocked</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The temple abbott, Phra Photisang Taebmuan, who was found to be a Karen national unregistered in civil records. Three monks also allegedly tested positive for methamphetamine</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Authorities said the three monks will be sent to drug rehabilitation, while the abbot was handed over to immigration officials for further investigation.<br>An estimated 93.4 per cent of the Thai population is Buddhist, with some 45,000 temples across Thailand, according to the National Office of Buddhism.<br>But public trust in the country&#8217;s Buddhist order has been eroded by crimes and scandals, including a femme fatale seduction scandal in July, where a string of high-ranking monks caught up in a honey trap set up by a 35-year-old woman known as Sika Golf &#8211; real name Wilawan Emsawat &#8211; were re-directing temple funds to the blackmailer.<br>When she was arrested, Golf admitted to blackmailing senior monks at popular temples in several provinces, as well as money laundering and receiving stolen goods.<br>Police also uncovered a cache of some 80,000 sexually explicit pictures and videos involving multiple senior monks at various temples across the country on devices found at her home.<br>One video shared by police shows a monk reclining on Golf on a sofa before she slaps him on the head.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><strong>In July 2025, Wilawan Emsawat, [photo], 35, aka Sika Golf</strong> dragged several high-ranking monks in Thailand into a seduction scandal after they were caught funneling temple funds to her. Allegedly, raking in almost £9million</strong>,<strong> blackmailing the religious leaders in a honey trap scheme </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Five mobile devices were said to contain clips and stills of her engaged in sexual acts with several monks, some of whom were still wearing their traditional orange robes.<br>Police sources at the time revealed that Golf was the wife of a local politician who left her after learning that she phoned lovers at night and received donations given to the monks that they re-gifted to her.<br>Maintaining the facade of an A List &#8216;personality&#8217;, she was reportedly renting a &#8216;luxury house&#8217; for $938 &#8211; $1,251 (30,000-40,000 baht) per month. When traveling to temples to visit her marks, she would hire luxury automobiles, aimed at burnishing her image <br>Golf allegedly was blackmailing religious figures with footage of encounters with her. It is believed that she raked in almost $12.29 million in her honey trap scheme. Authorities said Golf would form close relationships with monks before demanding money to keep the details private</p>

Four monks defrocked, banned from the religion after police raid on Buddhist temple in Thailand, ‘caught them with stash of porn, sex toys, penis pump and an escort list’
