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	The meeting saw that the charges of embezzlement and land ownershipillegitimate land ownership had already ended at the court of first instance without any appeal.</div>
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	The council and the National Buddhism Office had been called on by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to act against the abbot as suggested in a letter from the late supreme patriarch.&nbsp;</div>
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	The DSI would summon the abbot and other monks for questioning starting early next month regarding the donations from embezzlement suspect Supachai Srisupa-aksorn, then chairman of the Khlong Chan Credit Union, to the bank accounts of the abbot, his temple and other monks.&nbsp;</div>
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Investigation of Phra Dhammachayo continues

The Sangha Council yesterday didn’t consider whether Phra Dhammachayo, the controversial abbot of the Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani, should be defrocked.