CHC paid $6m to produce Sun Whore's China Wine

City Harvest trial: $6 million purportedly paid to American production company

May 20, 2013



Serina Wee Gek Yin arrives at the Subcourt for the third day of trial on Monday, May 20, 2013. It has emerged in court on
Monday that $6 million was paid to producer Justin Herz by City Harvest Church through Xtron Productions. The amount,
reflected on an excel sheet and listed under "additional JH needs", came attached in an email from accused Serina Wee in
Oct 2009.




By Bryna Singh


It has emerged in court on Monday that $6 million was paid to producer Justin Herz by City Harvest Church through Xtron Productions. The amount, reflected on an excel sheet and listed under "additional JH needs", came attached in an email from accused Serina Wee in Oct 2009.

Mr Herz owns JH Music, which is a production house registered in California; he was engaged to produce and promote Ho Yeow Sun's first English-language single and album there. Xtron was formerly managing Ms Ho.

Second witness Angie Koh, a former accounts assistant at the church, was also asked by prosecutors about an email that she sent to Mr Wahju Hanafi, where she had told him to settle certain transactions so that the money would "reach Justin in two weeks".

"What does Justin have to do with the drawdown of bonds from Firna?" asked Deputy Public Prosecutor Mavis Chionh. Firna is the company owned by Mr Wahju in which City Harvest Church allegedly bought sham bonds from.

Ms Koh replied that she "could not remember".

The prosecution tried to show on Monday that a few of the accused church leaders had plotted the movement of millions of dollars, while leaving others out of the loop on their plan.

An email from Serina Wee to Sharon Tan - both of whom are accused persons - saw the former saying that she did not want her company, Advante, to be reflected in "any of the transactions", so that "auditors wouldn't link us".

Another email from Wee to Mr Wahju, who is not one of the accused, saw Wee telling Mr Wahju to complete certain transactions in the "soonest possible time frame", so that the bank would not "raise any questions".

Mr Wahju is also the director of Xtron and Ultimate Assets, which were involved in transactions with the church.

Mr Wahju had said in an email reply to Wee, Chew Eng Han and second witness Angie Koh: "All these costs are to be borne by Xtron or whatever company. We are just instruments to make things happen."

Xtron director grilled by prosecution during City Harvest trial



SINGAPORE - Despite Xtron Productions running losses in the 2007 and 2008 financial years, the audio-visual services provider was a viable business, said its director Koh Siow Ngea as he took the witness stand in the criminal trial of six City Harvest Church leaders.

Mr Koh, a property developer and executive member of the church, became Xtron director in July 2008.

Xtron, registered in 2003, provided audio-visual services and sublet Singapore Expo Hall 8 to City Harvest Church.

Xtron’s net losses from Jan to Oct 2008 were about S$9 million, but Mr Koh said it was sufficiently big and offered services that were in demand. The church is Xtron’s biggest client but the company could source for new business even if this ceased to be so, said Mr Koh.

The prosecution, in examining Mr Koh, sought to show the links between the church and Xtron. It was the church board’s vice-president Tan Ye Peng - one of the accused - who approached Mr Koh to be Xtron director. To do so, Mr Koh stepped down as board member of the church.

Mr Koh maintained that Xtron was independent from the church. The church leadership may have consulted Xtron before appointing him, he said.

Asked why the church asked him to be Xtron director, Mr Koh said he reckoned the church leadership had found him suitable, of good character and for his property background. Mr Koh is also the brother-in-law of another of the accused, Chew Eng Han.

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City Harvest trial: $6 million purportedly paid to American production company

May 20, 2013

Serina Wee Gek Yin arrives at the Subcourt for the third day of trial on Monday, May 20, 2013. It has emerged in court on
Monday that $6 million was paid to producer Justin Herz by City Harvest Church through Xtron Productions. The amount,
reflected on an excel sheet and listed under "additional JH needs", came attached in an email from accused Serina Wee in
Oct 2009.




By Bryna Singh


It has emerged in court on Monday that $6 million was paid to producer Justin Herz by City Harvest Church through Xtron Productions. The amount, reflected on an excel sheet and listed under "additional JH needs", came attached in an email from accused Serina Wee in Oct 2009.

Mr Herz owns JH Music, which is a production house registered in California; he was engaged to produce and promote Ho Yeow Sun's first English-language single and album there. Xtron was formerly managing Ms Ho.

Second witness Angie Koh, a former accounts assistant at the church, was also asked by prosecutors about an email that she sent to Mr Wahju Hanafi, where she had told him to settle certain transactions so that the money would "reach Justin in two weeks".

"What does Justin have to do with the drawdown of bonds from Firna?" asked Deputy Public Prosecutor Mavis Chionh. Firna is the company owned by Mr Wahju in which City Harvest Church allegedly bought sham bonds from.

Ms Koh replied that she "could not remember".

The prosecution tried to show on Monday that a few of the accused church leaders had plotted the movement of millions of dollars, while leaving others out of the loop on their plan.

An email from Serina Wee to Sharon Tan - both of whom are accused persons - saw the former saying that she did not want her company, Advante, to be reflected in "any of the transactions", so that "auditors wouldn't link us".

Another email from Wee to Mr Wahju, who is not one of the accused, saw Wee telling Mr Wahju to complete certain transactions in the "soonest possible time frame", so that the bank would not "raise any questions".

Mr Wahju is also the director of Xtron and Ultimate Assets, which were involved in transactions with the church.

Mr Wahju had said in an email reply to Wee, Chew Eng Han and second witness Angie Koh: "All these costs are to be borne by Xtron or whatever company. We are just instruments to make things happen."

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That "cannot make it" China wine music video really need $6mil?
I would think that only a portion of it goes to the JH music production company.
The rest has been under Sun Whore's own luxury disposal.

more like china swine :oIo: cheebye horsey

6 million for a music video? kns Eric Khoo can make it movie with that and still got spare change!

This is really one crap video!

They go to jail not because of missing millions, but producing this shitty video, with that black dude.

Judging from her "cannot make it" China wine music video, she has definitely spent a lot of $$$ for her extreme makeover.

CCB spending $6m to produce just a few minutes CB video using people's donation money Please send them to HeLL!

"China Wine" is an excellent production. I heard Michael Jackson was interested in working with Sun. Unfortunately, he died before this dream collaboration could take place.

Leongsam said:

"China Wine" is an excellent production. I heard Michael Jackson was interested in working with Sun. Unfortunately, he died before this dream collaboration could take place.

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Never heard before.

must be hallucinating from smoking some premium crack

E-mails show funding for CCB Sun Whore’s career


Prosecution traces how $6 million of church money was moved around



By Bryna Singh And Melody Zaccheus
21 May 2013


For the first time since the City Harvest trial started last week, prosecutors have produced evidence to show that $6 million of church funds purportedly went into paying for pop singer Ho Yeow Sun’s music career.

The prosecution presented an e-mail sent by one of the accused, accountant Serina Wee, to Indonesian businessman Wahju Hanafi that came with a timeline showing the “round-tripping” that City Harvest Church leaders have been accused of.

The timeline, from Oct 5 to 31, 2009, supposedly showed how money was meant to flow from one church-linked company to another, before $6 million was eventually to be transferred to Mr Justin Herz of JH Music after Oct 31.

JH Music is a production house registered in California, and Mr Herz was engaged to promote Ms Ho’s pop career in the US.

In the e-mail, Wee told Mr Wahju to “keep to the timeline” of transactions. Mr Wahju is a former director of Xtron Productions, and director of Ultimate Assets and Firna, companies that allegedly were involved in this series of transactions.

This high-profile trial involves six church leaders, including founder Kong Hee, who allegedly funnelled $24 million of the church’s funds into sham bond investments to further the career of his wife, Ms Ho, between 2007 and 2008. They were also said to have tried to cover that up by devising transactions of $26.6 million, known as “round-tripping”.

The prosecution also produced another e-mail from a second witness, Ms Angie Koh, a former accounts assistant at the church, to Mr Wahju. In it, she had asked him to settle certain transactions so that the money would “reach Justin in two weeks”.

“What does Justin have to do with the drawdown of bonds from Firna?” asked Deputy Public Prosecutor Mavis Chionh. Firna was one of the companies which the church allegedly bought “sham bonds” from. Ms Koh said she “could not remember”.

Besides this payment to Mr Herz, the prosecution yesterday also produced other e-mail messages which alluded to its case that the said transactions were part of a deliberately planned scheme.

One was an e-mail from Wee to church finance manager Sharon Tan - also an accused - where Wee said she did not want her company Advante to be reflected in “any of the transactions”, so that “auditors won’t link us”.

Another e-mail from Wee to Mr Wahju shows Wee instructing him to complete certain transactions in the “soonest possible timeframe”, so that Mr Wahju’s bank would not “raise any questions”.Mr Wahju, in his e-mail reply, said: “All these costs are to be borne by Xtron or whatever company. We are just instruments to make things happen.”

Defence counsel, however, argued that all the transactions were above board. Senior Counsel Kannan Ramesh pointed out that Xtron’s auditor had looked at the bond subscriptions and found nothing amiss.

Senior Counsel N.Sreenivasan also said the law firm drawing up the bond documents had raised no alarm either, and added that Xtron was a profit-making company with several sources of income.

But the prosecution countered by showing the church bought bonds from Xtron within the two years that it had reported losses. Based on financial statements, Xtron made a net loss of about $2.4 million for the financial year ending Dec 31, 2007, and about $9 million for the financial period of January to October 2008.

Very good point. Also from what has been happening in CHC. Its blatently obvious for a very long time tat the donations is used for Kong Hee n cronies. Cant believe that despite all these. They have not lost any believers n that they are so blind to the abuses staring them in the face. Must b stockholm syndrome.

Narong Wongwan said:

6 million for a music video? kns Eric Khoo can make it movie with that and still got spare change!

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I_Hate_Pappies said:

Never heard before.

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That's because you don't have access to the inner circle. The song is fantastic! her dancing is fabulous. See for yourself.

Leongsam said:

That's because you don't have access to the inner circle. The song is fantastic! her dancing is fabulous. See for yourself.

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i only see this. CHINA SWINE :oIo::oIo::oIo:

You call this music ?

My little nephews and nieces can sing better.

Here you can see the photographers scrambling to take photos of this beautiful lady. She is just so popular it's unbelievable. The whole of Singapore should be proud of her. She's so much more than just a CHC ambassador. She's Singapore's shining star.

Leongsam said:

That's because you don't have access to the inner circle. The song is fantastic! her dancing is fabulous. See for yourself.

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This is the first time I have seen the video or heard the song, and they are both crap.

Leongsam said:

Here you can see the photographers scrambling to take photos of this beautiful lady. She is just so popular it's unbelievable. The whole of Singapore should be proud of her. She's so much more than just a CHC ambassador. She's Singapore's shining star.

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Horse face you call beautiful ?