A 35 year-old Thai woman has been arrested on suspicion of crimes including money laundering and receiving stolen goods after blackmailing at least nine Buddhist monks – among them several prominent abbots of prominent temples – by enticing them into effing and then extorting them for the equivalent of millions in US dollars in exchange for her not posting pics and videos of them breaking their sacred vow of celibacy during said effings, the Times of London reports.
The scheme by Wilawan Emsawat, who would make contact with the monks on social media and rope them into the Bangkoking at her luxury home outside of Bangkok, unraveled after last month’s abrupt ghosting of Phra Thep Wachirapamok – aka “Arch” – the abbot of Wat Tri Thotsathep Worawihan temple in the capital city until he quit and fled to Laos. Wilawan had claimed to “Arch” she was pregnant by him and demanded approximately $239,970.98 in payoff fees in exchange for her silence. When he refused she told other monks, leading to his exodus – and another monk saying he had been in what he thought was a long-term relationship with Wilawan but then discovered she was effing another one. In all Wilawan’s bank records reveal she had raked in the equivalent of nearly $12 million USD over the last three years of her Buddhist monk sextortion scheme.