Bangkok (AFP) - Soldiers and police surrounded a scandal-hit Buddhist temple on Bangkok's outskirts Thursday in a bid to arrest the sect's spiritual leader after Thailand's junta chief invoked special powers to put the site under military control.
It is the latest twist in a long-running saga between between investigators and the powerful Wat Dhammakaya temple, a breakaway Buddhist order whose controversial founder has been charged with embezzlement but never been brought to court.
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