City Harvest church founder Kong Hee and four others from his
ministry were arrested by the police on Tuesday morning, two years
after investigations first began into the homegrown church.
Mr Kong, deputy pastor Tan Ye Peng and three other church
leaders were picked up by the police at their homes early on
Tuesday morning and taken in for questioning over the alleged
misuse of church funds as well as alleged breaches under charity
laws.
All five are expected to be produced in court on Wednesday.
This latest development comes two years after the Commercial
Affairs Department started a probe into the alleged misuse of
church funds in May 2010.
Mr Kong stepped down as chairman of City Harvest Church in April
2011 in a leadership reshuffle that had half of the ministry's
ten-member board replaced.
City Harvest Church is one of Singapore's largest churches with
more than 30,000 members.