{
  "id": 622072,
  "title": "Chiang Rai Police Investigate Abbot of Wat Mae Kham Over Missing Money",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/chiang-rai-police-investigate-abbot-of-wat-mae-kham-over-missing-money",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T02:01:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Chiang Rai Times",
    "slug": "chiang-rai-times",
    "url": "https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/chiang-rai/achiang-rai-police-investigate-abbot-of-wat-mae-kham/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "CHIANG RAI – A shocking financial scandal has recently hit a quiet, tight-knit village in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Concerned villagers recently filed an official police report against the senior abbot of Wat Mae Kham. They fiercely accuse him of losing an unbelievable 8.7 million baht of community money. The 65-year-old abbot, Phra Maha Nongkaew Pengjai, […] The post Chiang Rai Police Investigate…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}