CAD arrests 5 City Harvest Church members
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Re: CAD arrests 5 City Harvest Church members
Actually, in contrary, my view is if the church-goers wants to give and see their leaders be clothed in luxury, why not. Who says religion means nothing? This is Buddhism, not religion as a whole. Chritianity on another hand, believes in the abundance that God will provide for. The issue with this case is that they are dishonest, they cheated and they clearly misuse the funds for whatever reasons it wasn't catered for. These are 2 separate issues.
That's a very offensive statement. Just because you do not go to church, doesn't mean people do not go to church for the right reasons. When you mention Church members, that's their own doing and it is not religion. It is culture. They are different. So other religions, parents don't dwell on things like compatibility? Again, that's people and culture. And yes, I take what you say with great offense.
diablo_728;841304 said:
Actually, in contrary, my view is if the church-goers wants to give and see their leaders be clothed in luxury, why not. Who says religion means nothing? This is Buddhism, not religion as a whole. Chritianity on another hand, believes in the abundance that God will provide for. The issue with this case is that they are dishonest, they cheated and they clearly misuse the funds for whatever reasons it wasn't catered for. These are 2 separate issues.
VolanteDB9;841307 said:
That's a very offensive statement. Just because you do not go to church, doesn't mean people do not go to church for the right reasons. When you mention Church members, that's their own doing and it is not religion. It is culture. They are different. So other religions, parents don't dwell on things like compatibility? Again, that's people and culture. And yes, I take what you say with great offense.
wobbles
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Re: CAD arrests 5 City Harvest Church members
Biskit de Noir, it is sad, but whenever someONE that purportedly represents a religion (note, the deliberate use of the word religion, not faith) trips & falls in such a spectacular fashion, the entire faith, through this one misdeed, gets dragged through the mud
BlackCookie;841437 said:
Biskit de Noir, it is sad, but whenever someONE that purportedly represents a religion (note, the deliberate use of the word religion, not faith) trips & falls in such a spectacular fashion, the entire faith, through this one misdeed, gets dragged through the mud
Re: CAD arrests 5 City Harvest Church members
STOMPERs laughed at accident BMWs/Mercs and mocked at the misfortune of the owners and lamented "rich people think they are big fark"
Great chance for them to generalise and bash.
Perhaps we should start bashing other religions' believers too. Stand-by. Let's start a thread on Islam and what not. Media reported they killed anyways.
Oh wait, it is a small group of black sheeps !!! I see.
Not all Muslims are killers !!!
Phew.....
STOMPERs laughed at accident BMWs/Mercs and mocked at the misfortune of the owners and lamented "rich people think they are big fark"
Great chance for them to generalise and bash.
Perhaps we should start bashing other religions' believers too. Stand-by. Let's start a thread on Islam and what not. Media reported they killed anyways.
Oh wait, it is a small group of black sheeps !!! I see.
Not all Muslims are killers !!!
Phew.....
Centurion9990
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SINGAPORE: Five senior members of City Harvest Church (CHC), including its founder Kong Hee, have been charged in court on Wednesday with misappropriating church funds.
The prosecution is levelling three charges against the five - involving over S$50 million in total.
This is more than the S$23 million earlier announced by the Commissioner of Charities.
The first charge centres on purported bond investments made by the church in two companies, Xtron Productions and PT the First National Glassware.
These bond investments, which the prosecution said are "sham transactions", were allegedly devised to conceal the diversion of some S$24 million from the church's Building Fund to fund Ho Yeow Sun's music career. Ho is Kong Hee's wife.
Four people are liable for the first set of charges - Kong Hee, Tan Ye Peng, Lam Leng Hung and Chew Eng Han.
The second charge relates to a series of transactions that some of the accused had created to clear the purported bond investments off the church's accounts.
They allegedly misappropriated a further S$26.6 million from the church's funds.
It's alleged that the money was circulated through a complicated series of transactions to create the false appearance that the purported sham bond investments had been redeemed.
For these charges, which have been termed as "round-tripping", three people are liable - Tan Ye Peng, Chew Eng Han and Tan Shao Yuen Sharon.
The third charge relates to the falsification of church's accounts to cover their tracks.
It's alleged that Tan Ye Peng, Chew Eng Han and Tan Shao Yuen Sharon doctored the church's books to give the false appearance that the bond investments had been redeemed.
In all, pastor and church founder Kong Hee faces three charges; senior pastor Tan Ye Peng faces 10 charges; finance manager Tan Shao Yuen Sharon faces seven charges; senior member Chew Eng Han faces 10 charges; and former secretary of the church's management board Lam Leng Hung faces three charges.
All five church members stood solemnly together in the dock when the charges were read to them.
The five have each posted bail of S$500,000 and have had their passports impounded.
Earlier in the morning, a media scrum broke out when Kong Hee and his wife, local songstress Sun Ho, arrived outside the Subordinate Courts.
Supporters belonging to City Harvest Church were also gathered outside the court.
Some were there as early as 7.30am. Their numbers swelled to over a hundred within an hour.
- CNA/ck
The prosecution is levelling three charges against the five - involving over S$50 million in total.
This is more than the S$23 million earlier announced by the Commissioner of Charities.
The first charge centres on purported bond investments made by the church in two companies, Xtron Productions and PT the First National Glassware.
These bond investments, which the prosecution said are "sham transactions", were allegedly devised to conceal the diversion of some S$24 million from the church's Building Fund to fund Ho Yeow Sun's music career. Ho is Kong Hee's wife.
Four people are liable for the first set of charges - Kong Hee, Tan Ye Peng, Lam Leng Hung and Chew Eng Han.
The second charge relates to a series of transactions that some of the accused had created to clear the purported bond investments off the church's accounts.
They allegedly misappropriated a further S$26.6 million from the church's funds.
It's alleged that the money was circulated through a complicated series of transactions to create the false appearance that the purported sham bond investments had been redeemed.
For these charges, which have been termed as "round-tripping", three people are liable - Tan Ye Peng, Chew Eng Han and Tan Shao Yuen Sharon.
The third charge relates to the falsification of church's accounts to cover their tracks.
It's alleged that Tan Ye Peng, Chew Eng Han and Tan Shao Yuen Sharon doctored the church's books to give the false appearance that the bond investments had been redeemed.
In all, pastor and church founder Kong Hee faces three charges; senior pastor Tan Ye Peng faces 10 charges; finance manager Tan Shao Yuen Sharon faces seven charges; senior member Chew Eng Han faces 10 charges; and former secretary of the church's management board Lam Leng Hung faces three charges.
All five church members stood solemnly together in the dock when the charges were read to them.
The five have each posted bail of S$500,000 and have had their passports impounded.
Earlier in the morning, a media scrum broke out when Kong Hee and his wife, local songstress Sun Ho, arrived outside the Subordinate Courts.
Supporters belonging to City Harvest Church were also gathered outside the court.
Some were there as early as 7.30am. Their numbers swelled to over a hundred within an hour.
- CNA/ck
