Politics fuel Buddhism leadership race

Political divisions and allegations of corruption are fueling an unholy battle for the leadership of Thai Buddhism.

Religion is becoming a proxy war for the color-coded politics that Thailand's government has quashed since taking power in 2014 in a bid to end a decade of political violence.

The front-runner for Supreme Patriarch, head of the country's 300,000 monks, is a 90-year-old abbot who is under investigation for a tax scam involving luxury cars.