Suspended, now charged
CHARGED: (From left) Chew Eng Han, Tan Ye Peng, Sharon Tan Shao Yuen and Lam Leng Hung
By Shaffiq Alkhatib
The New Paper
Sunday, Jul 01, 2012
SINGAPORE - City Harvest Church (CHC) is a charity. Other than its founder, Kong Hee, 47, four others were charged in court on Wednesday.
The Commissioner of Charities has suspended all four and Kong from their executive memberships in the charity.
The four are:
Chew Eng Han, 52
Co-shareholder/director of Amac Capital Partners, an investment company and investment manager of CHC.
He faces 10 charges - six counts of being involved in a conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust by an agent and four counts of being involved in a conspiracy to commit falsification of accounts.
He served as a director at Amac Capital Partners in 2007. The company is named in four of his charges.
For instance, in October 2009, $11.4 million from the CHC Building Fund was allegedly misappropriated by being disbursed into Amac Capital Partners' Special Opportunities Funds.
On its website, Amac described Chew as having 25 years of experience in financial markets trading and advising on markets.
He has worked for major financial institutions, including JP Morgan, Schroders, OCBC, and State Street Bank.
Tan Ye Peng, 39
Vice-president of the CHC management board. He is a senior pastor at the church and Kong's second-in-command.
He was also an ex-director of a private school, City College, formerly known as City Harvest Education Centre. It was set up in 2002.
He faces 10 charges - six counts of being involved in a conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust by an agent and four counts of being involved in a conspiracy to commit falsification of accounts.
Sharon Tan Shao Yuen, 36
Finance manager of CHC.
She faces seven charges - three counts of being involved in a conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust by an agent and four counts of being involved in a conspiracy to commit falsification of accounts.
Lam Leng Hung, 44
Member of CHC management board.
He faces three charges of being involved in a conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust by an agent.