Senior Thai officials have revealed that monks are to be issued with smart cards tracking their criminal history.The move follows a series of high-profile scandals ranging from sex and drugs to murders taking place at temples."Monks across the country already hold the paper-based cards but the information is out-of-date, which makes it hard to verify their background," Ormsin Chivapruck, an official at the Office of the Prime Minister, told reporters on Thursday.Smart cards with chips would enable up-to-date tracking with the monk's monastic history recorded alongside any criminal offence or report of drug use, he added.The move is "to prevent fake monks using religion, or suspected wrong-doers from hiding their illegal acts behind orange robes," he added.Details will be discussed next week at a meeting of the Supreme Sangha Council, the body governing the national faith.
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