Phra Dhammachayo medical certificate wrongly issued
Ratchaburi-based Fort Phanurangsi Hospital on Friday confirmed a medical certificate used to back the claim that the controversial abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya was too ill to respond to police summonses was issued in a manner not in keeping with due proce
The facility’s director, Colonel Narong Pakdisupapol, insisted the certificate wasn’t issued by the hospital although the form itself was authentic.
He said Phra Dhammachayo wasn’t listed as a patient at the hospital and there was no record of him receiving treatment or medicine there.
He said the monk had never been at the hospital for a check-up or treatment.
In relation to a committee being set up to probe the misuse of a hospital document, he said the matter centred on an individual’s action outside civil service working hours so launching an investigation was up to his supervisor.
Wat Phra Dhammakaya’s communications assistant director, Phra Maha Noppon Punyachayo, said the doctor who issued the medical certificate treated the abbot at the temple so there was no need to travel to the hospital.
He said the abbot remained in hospital as his condition required close medical supervision and treatment.
The Pathum Thani temple says the abbot is suffering from deep vein thrombosis.
An arrest warrant was issued for Phra Dhammachayo after he repeatedly failed to answer the Department of Special Investigation summonses. The DSI has been summoning over his alleged role in the embezzlement of funds at Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative.
Supachai Srisupa-aksorn, a former executive of the cooperative, had given the abbot a huge sum of money that belonged to the cooperative.
The temple said it thought the money was a donation.
The latest summons from the DSI requires the monk to acknowledge the charges against him – money laundering and accepting ill-gotten gains – on Thursday.
