Thai police raid Dhammakaya temple in hunt for wanted monk

Thai police have entered a Buddhist sanctuary on the edges of Bangkok in an offer to capture a minister needed regarding asserted tax evasion.

Officers started attacking the site on Thursday after past endeavors were upset when a huge number of the friar's lovers turned up with all due respect.

The Wat Dhammakaya sanctuary was before put under military control.

The otherworldly pioneer is accepted to stow away inside the vast compound.

Phra Dhammajayo is blamed for stealing stores from the gigantic sanctuary in Bangkok, yet when officers endeavored to look the site last June they were obstructed by his supporters.

The 72-year-old abbot has stayed inside the sanctuary for a considerable length of time, saying he is too sick to face authorities. He denies the assertions and says they are politically inspired.

Supporters of Wat Dhammakaya supplicate before a police line before the sanctuary only north of Bangkok, 16 February 2017Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES

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Supporters of Phra Dhammajayo supplicate before the sanctuary on Thursday

Prior on Thursday several police and warriors encompassed the site, hindering the streets prompting to and from the sanctuary and putting the range under military control.

"We are close the sanctuary and after that we will seek every one of the structures," said Col Paisit Wongmaung, leader of the Department of Special Investigations (DSI).

"In the event that [the abbot] supposes he is pure he ought to surrender and enter legal process," he said.

Somewhere in the range of 4,000 police and military were conveyed with barricades "restricting anybody from entering or leaving", the sanctuary said in an announcement.

There have been a few fizzled endeavors to induce the previous abbot to leave the sanctuary.