City Harvest church founder Kong Hee and 4 others arrested

last SG · 2012-06-26T16:20:59+00:00

seriously, wat are they feeding these ppl?Virgin blood.

lce SG

where are the pictures of the others arrested?

shame them in public

QX179R SG

Understandable for City Harvest Church to support leaders: Sam Tan

SINGAPORE: Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development, Youth and Sports Sam Tan, said the City Harvest Church members' support for their leaders is understandable.

He said the public's response to the court case has been forthcoming and rational.

"It is understandable, that there will always be supporters to the leaders, and it is also completely understandable for them to express their support to their leaders. And it is also completely understandable for people who hold different views, to also express such views.

"So I hope that whether supporters, or people who are having a different opinion, can express such opinions in a very rational manner so as to encourage further discourse.

"I think in the process of court hearing, we will let the law take its course to decide whether all those points are substantiated or not.

"I think so far, it's been forthcoming, by and large, still quite rational."

In a statement released on Thursday, City Harvest Church (CHC) said it stands by the five members of the church who have been charged with misuse of church funds.

Mr Aries Zulkarnain, the executive pastor and a founding member of the church, said that Commissioner of Charities (COC) has confirmed that Mr Kong Hee, the senior pastor, and Mr Tan Ye Peng, the deputy senior pastor will continue to preach at the church.

- CNA/ck

Just_do_it_lah SG

4sg SG

I doubt the couple dares to stand up on pulpit or appear in public again if they are convicted.

They talking big now......see how the court will tear their reputation apart.....

and see how some unkind people.....churchgoers or not.......going to react on them......

Bikeforceful SG

Given the details of the circumstances read in the media about round tripping and falsifying of accounts etc. Logically they should be suspended from any preaching for the moment. It’s also for their own good less they continue to prejudice their own case! Imagine if you are checking on a bank officer suspected of some wrong doing like misappropriation etc…you normal suspend him or her from normal duties until investigations are over …you certainly must be mad to allow the person to still handle money in the bank… so similarly It is hard to understand they are allowed to continue preaching. their prosperity sermons!

Bikeforceful SG

CHC is not a member of NCCS

Precisely! so the NCCS shld just steer clear of the issue and not ask its denominational members to encourage their congregation to pray for Kong! Unless he clarifies further by saying whether Kong is innocent or guilty, we pray that he emerges a better person thro this experience. Don't send wrong signals!

Mr Milo SG

It is all a sham, a gigantic fraud

they are in it for the cash

Christanity is on the decline in the west, accelerated by the sexual abuse of minors

knowing this, they quickly moved in to cash in as much as possible before the inevitable collapse

Honeybunz SG

Telling ppl to pray for Kong is nothing. People do pray for sinners. Pray for sinners' souls and that God have mercy on them.

ditzy SG

Come to think of it, how CHC managed the money, falsified its accounts, and misled volunteers, is really their own internal problem. And the volunteers were willing, look they still support him.

Honeybunz SG

Indonesian businessman Wahju Hanafi, the other beneficiary of funds allegedly diverted from City Harvest Church (CHC) to further Sun Ho's music career, is a man with multiple links to the church, its founder Kong Hee and affiliated companies.

Mr Hanafi joined the church in the early 1990s, Kong wrote in a 2008 article in CHC newsletter Harvest Times. In that article, Kong also mentions that Mr Hanafi bought a major glass factory in Indonesia in early 2007, tripling his personal net worth.

Back in 1986, he founded Super Value Stores, a general merchandise retail chain which now has 14 branches and more than 1,100 employees, according to its corporate website. Mr Hanafi is listed as its managing director.

Honeybunz SG

Information from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) shows that Mr Hanafi is a Singapore permanent resident who is both a director and shareholder of two other locally registered companies: Harvest Glass and Creative Glass.

Acra records also show that Mr Hanafi used to hold posts in companies linked to CHC, Kong and his wife, Ms Ho.

He was a director from June 2003 to July 2008 of Xtron Productions, which according to media reports is Ms Ho's artiste management firm and which also supplies the church with video and audio equipment. Xtron is one of the two companies that the five are alleged to have diverted church funds to.

From September 2004 to January 2005, Mr Hanafi was also a director of Skin Couture, the fashion retailer co-owned by Kong and Ms Ho.

Media reports yesterday said that the Sentosa Cove penthouse that Kong, his wife and their seven-year-old son now live in is registered under two names: Kong Hee and Wahju Hanafi.

Mr Hanafi was also mentioned in the Commissioner of Charities' (COC) release on Tuesday as having donated $600,000 to CHC's building fund.

COC said that some senior church members came up with a plan around April 2009 to transfer Mr Hanafi's donation from the building fund to a private account, to finance a project aimed at connecting with non-Christians via Ms Ho's secular music.

The inquiry found that CHC had drafted letters from Mr Hanafi and another person indicating that their donations were "love gifts" to specific CHC pastors and employees. But evidence uncovered by the commission suggested that these "refund" letters were backdated.

Honeybunz SG

Come to think of it, how CHC managed the money, falsified its accounts, and misled volunteers, is really their own internal problem. And the volunteers were willing, look they still support him.

it cannot be an internal problem anymore if Kong Hee decided to register the orgn under Charity, which he did and this means it will be ruled by the law of Charity Act blah blah blah.

ditzy SG

ok then I got nothing to say, because I always think our govt just like to clamp down on people who make big money too fast.

troublemaker2005 SG

poor souls, poor souls

FireIce SG

周瑜打黄盖

Bikeforceful SG

Come to think of it, how CHC managed the money, falsified its accounts, and misled volunteers, is really their own internal problem. And the volunteers were willing, look they still support him.

so via your logic if someone murders their mother or father it's also their internal problem and business within their family?

Honeybunz SG

Will they call for a holy war or something?

Posted by temasektimes on June 29, 2012

Singapore’s largest church City Harvest Church (CHC) had issued an ominous warning to the media for portraying its beloved pastor Kong Hee in a negative light.

Kong Hee was charged on Wednesday of three counts of misusing the church’s funds to further the music career of his singer wife Ho Yeow Sun.

In a statement issued on its website, Bobby Chaw, the pastor in charge of missions at CHC expresses his disappointment with some of the media’s coverage so far, particularly in relation to the COC inquiry.

“In some instances, they seem to have pre-judged us. We will be dealing with this in due course,” he says, without elaborating on it.

Meanwhile, there appears to be a concerted efforts by CHC members to counter the negative publicity online by speaking up in defence of Kong Hee and CHC on social media.

Fcukpap SG

the only possibility for them to tok big ....could be....

they may know "someone with powerful connections" to help them appeal for light sentences or to be acquitted....i think that should be their only hope now..

this had happened in some past cases, as u know...

Dalforce 1941 SG

Kong Hee has disgraced christianity in Singapore.

Commited fraud yet still dare to act so cocky. Don't punish severely also cannot.

Think rich can act cocky?

Honeybunz SG

the only possibility for them to tok big ....could be....

they may know "someone with powerful connections" to help them appeal for light sentences or to be acquitted....i think that should be their only hope now..

this had happened in some past cases, as u know...

how to get light sentence when the previous cases have already set a precedent?

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