PUBLISHED: 21 Oct 2024 at 19: 57
Following press reports that it may have encroached on forest area, police and forest officials began an investigation of the Cherntawan International Meditation Center in Muang area, which is run by well-known priest Phra Maha Vudhijaya Vajiramedhi, or V Vajiramedhi.
The evaluation of the meditation center in tambon Huai Sak was led by Pol Lt. Gen. Yodsawat Aekkul, examiner of the Central Investigation Bureau’s Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division, and Prasit Thachang, director of Chiang Rai’s Forest Resource Management Office 2.
Phra Maha Vudhijaya Vajiramedhi, 51, was unavailable during Monday’s observation as he was apparently in Japan on a yoga journey. The top priest has no intention of going back to Thailand right away.
The Doi Pui National Forest Reserve serves as the location of the yoga center.
The National Office of Buddhism, through the National Office of Buddhism, requested and obtained consent to construct the center on 113 acres of land.
The office was afterwards successful in asking the center to increase its land area by 30 ra, bringing the center’s total land area to 143 rai.
The authorities were able to discover that the center might have expanded beyond what was permitted to handle 190 acres of land. In a national forest supply, it is estimated that the area that the agreement did not cover was around 47 ra.
The research is expected to take 3 to 4 days, according to Mr. Prasit, with progress being made everyday available to the public.
However, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Chalermchai Sri-on announced a seven-day date for the conclusion of the fact-finding investigation.
Surachai Achalaboon, director-general of the Royal Forest Department, said that if there are basis for the incident, the prayer heart may become charged with bush invasion under the National Forest Reserve Act.
He claimed that the department may halt the use of the area and order the destruction of the buildings on the land if the center consciously espoused on the property.
After game clips of him preaching to people and important suspects in the image Group fraud went viral, Phra Maha Vudhijaya Vajiramedhi found himself in warm water.
He was criticized for acting “unclergy-like” because his doctrines were widely regarded as encouraging individuals to eke out money.