At least nine abbots and senior monks involved in the scandal have been disrobed and cast out of the monkhood, police said.

Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then pressured them into making large payments to cover up their intimacy.

The case of Wirapol Sukphol, the infamous “jet-set monk” who was sentenced to over 100 years in prison for fraud, money laundering, and sexual offenses, highlighted how modern materialism could corrupt even those who had taken vows of simplicity and poverty.