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Ren Ci probe: 10 charges against Ming Yi
Ming Yi was charged in court on Tuesday with 10 criminal counts including forgery, misappropriation of funds and under the Charities Act
BUDDHIST monk Ming Yi, the flamboyant chief of the Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre, was accused on Tuesday of several offences concerning its financial affairs.
The 46-year-old, whose real name is Goh Kah Heng, was charged with defrauding the charity, forgery and helping to falsify its accounts, all offences under the Penal Code.
He was also accused of forging documents to cheat auditors and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities, both before and after a probe was initiated last November by the Health Ministry, which is in charge of medical charities. These are breaches of the Charities Act and the Penal Code.
The sums involved totalled about $300,000. Ming Yi faces up to a year's jail for providing false information to the Commissioner, and up to seven years' jail for forgery.
Accompanied by a few friends and a team of three lawyers headed by Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, the saffron-robed monk had the 10 charges read to him in English in a district court.
Ren Ci is the second large charity involved in court proceedings following the National Kidney Foundation scandal which ended with its former chief, T.T. Durai, going to jail.
Like the NKF, Ren Ci ran big annual fundraising shows which reaped millions of dollars in donations, and the highlight every year was a stunt performed by Ming Yi.
Ming Yi has been freed on bail of $200,000 and is due back in court on Aug 4.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Courts+and+Crime/STIStory_257880.html
Any bros got comments on this?
But i see his fund raising shows, quite touching leh. Lucky i never donate anything after the NKF saga ah!!
Ming Yi was charged in court on Tuesday with 10 criminal counts including forgery, misappropriation of funds and under the Charities Act
BUDDHIST monk Ming Yi, the flamboyant chief of the Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre, was accused on Tuesday of several offences concerning its financial affairs.
The 46-year-old, whose real name is Goh Kah Heng, was charged with defrauding the charity, forgery and helping to falsify its accounts, all offences under the Penal Code.
He was also accused of forging documents to cheat auditors and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities, both before and after a probe was initiated last November by the Health Ministry, which is in charge of medical charities. These are breaches of the Charities Act and the Penal Code.
The sums involved totalled about $300,000. Ming Yi faces up to a year's jail for providing false information to the Commissioner, and up to seven years' jail for forgery.
Accompanied by a few friends and a team of three lawyers headed by Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, the saffron-robed monk had the 10 charges read to him in English in a district court.
Ren Ci is the second large charity involved in court proceedings following the National Kidney Foundation scandal which ended with its former chief, T.T. Durai, going to jail.
Like the NKF, Ren Ci ran big annual fundraising shows which reaped millions of dollars in donations, and the highlight every year was a stunt performed by Ming Yi.
Ming Yi has been freed on bail of $200,000 and is due back in court on Aug 4.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Courts+and+Crime/STIStory_257880.html
Any bros got comments on this?
But i see his fund raising shows, quite touching leh. Lucky i never donate anything after the NKF saga ah!!
:p
