Saturday, May 18, 2013

Church trial highlights slew of scandals in Singapore...

Dressed in a faded black leather jacket, matching skinny jeans and sky-high stilettos, Sun Ho made her way past a waiting crowd of supporters, reporters and photographers, as bodyguards briskly ushered her from the car.

Her appearance would not have looked out of place at one of her pop concerts, but Sun was on her way to attending arguably the biggest and most anticipated corruption trial in Singapore this year.

After more than a year of intense speculation and probes, on Wednesday Singapore opened the corruption trial of six leaders of City Harvest Church, accused of siphoning off more than $50m of the congregation's money to support Sun Ho's singing career.

Ho's husband, Kong Hee, runs City Harvest Church. With more than 30,000 members, it's one of the biggest and richest mega-churches in Singapore. The church is famous for holding large-scale and elaborate services held in air-conditioned expo halls, resembling pop concerts. Full story...

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