BANGKOK: A Thai Buddhist monk shot dead this week had amassed a US$5mil (RM19mil) fortune in 12 bank accounts from years of extortion and was on a government blacklist of influential “mafia” figures, police said yesterday.
Investigators said the monk, Phra Kru Nanthapiwat, murdered execution-style by an unidentified assailant on Tuesday, had been earning as much as 1million baht (RM91,314) a week by embezzling temple funds and running illegal motorcycle taxi gangs.
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