A Thai Buddhist monk shot dead last week had amassed a $7 million fortune in 12 bank accounts from years of extortion and was on a government blacklist of influential "mafia" figures, police said.
Investigators said the monk, Phra Kru Nanthapiwat, murdered execution style by an unidentified assailanton Tuesday, had been earning as much as one million baht ($32,700) a week by embezzling temple funds and running illegal motorcycle taxi gangs.
The tale of a felonious monk,
- The Madd Monk
Source Material:
Reuters, "Thai monk was millionaire: cops", 06/27/03
