He said the team had purchased 14 seats on a Bangkok-bound Thai Airways flight, including one for the monk accused of embezzling state funds intended for temple development. Nor could Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai confirm a news report saying the monk had applied for asylum in Germany, foiling Thai police efforts to interrogate him. Phra Phrommedhi, who fled first to Laos, was detained by German immigration on his arrival at Frankfurt Airport on Friday. Seven of the centres are in Germany – in Berlin, Bavaria, Hamburg, Schwarzwald (the Black Forest in Baden-Wurttemberg), Heilbronn, Nordrhein Westfalen and Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Frankfurt. Phra Phrommedhi performed religious rites at the Bavarian temple in 2011 and 2015, on the latter occasion also heading a committee conducting dharma examinations for monks.

Source: The Nation Bangkok June 05, 2018 04:39 UTC