Mr Foong: Spent much of his time on the stand on Thursday not being able to recall incidents he was being questioned on.
SINGAPORE - Auditor Foong Daw Ching could not remember which City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders he met or what they discussed.
But e-mails presented in court on Friday showed that former finance manager Serina Wee had met the co-founder of auditing firm Baker Tilly TFW to discuss financial matters and updated senior members afterwards.
Wee and five others are accused of misusing more than $50 million of church money to finance pop singer Ho Yeow Sun's music career and covering up their tracks.
Here are excerpts of what they said compared to what Mr Foong, 63, said:
CHC founder Kong Hee: Mr Foong endorsed Xtron Productions
Unnerved by the bad press over charity health-care organisation Ren Ci's financial mismanagement, church staff member Suraj had written to Kong about his concerns over CHC accounts and Xtron Productions' retainer not being watertight.
Xtron used to manage Ms Ho.
Kong replied that they should make everything watertight and asked for an internal audit.
He wrote in a July 2008 e-mail: "From what I understand, all the transactions with (Xtron) have the endorsements of Foong Daw Ching, who is a super conservative accountant."
Mr Foong told chief prosecutor Mavis Chionh he did not know what transactions Kong was talking about: "I don't see any reason why I should be the one endorsing it because I hold no position in both Xtron and CHC."
It's the Serina Wee show: See her latest outfit
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A screengrab of an Instagram post on Oct 23 last year, where the former finance manager of City Harvest Church (CHC), Sharon Tan Shao Yuen, wrote that she had started an online store selling women's clothes.
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An Instagram post by Sharon Tan showing her with husband, Adrian Tan Peng Kiat. Adrian Tan is one of the owners of the Missy Stella blogshop.
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On Jan 13, Serina Wee, City Harvest Church (CHC)'s former finance chief, appeared in court in a blue-and-white dress. A similar dress can be bought from CHC's former finance manager Sharon Tan's online store Missy Stella for $48.
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And the black sleeveless dress Wee wore to court on Jan 12? Available for $52.
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A screengrab of an Sharon Tan's Instagram post, with (from left) Serina Wee, Sharon Tan and Jacelyn Tay, all of whom have worn clothes from the blogshop.
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Another Instagram screengrab of Jacelyn Tay (second from left) in a Missy Stella Denim Dress, taken from Missy Stella's instagram account.
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There's a new show in town - and it unfolds every morning outside the Subordinate Courts at Havelock Square.
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That's when Serina Wee, 36, one of the six City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders accused of misusing church funds, shows up in her latest outfit.
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She draws glances and stares from the onlookers.
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Mr Ahmad Farhan, 26, a bystander, said: "She's really hot. It's her hair that just makes her so sexy".
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Early morning queue outside Sub Courts for City Harvest trial
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Serina Wee arrives on Aug 30.
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Serina Wee arrives on Aug 30.
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The state believes the money was channelled into Ms Ho's career in 2007 and 2008 through sham bonds issued by two companies run by church members.
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The firms are glassware manufacturer Firna and music firm Xtron Productions, which managed Ho's career from 2003 to 2008.
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Defence lawyers said that church members had long supported Ms Ho's music ambitions as a way to evangelise and voted to approve it in board meetings.
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Kong arrives on Aug 30.
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City Harvest founding pastor Kong Hee and five of his deputies were charged last year with misappropriating about $24 million.
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The money was said to finance the music career of Ms Ho, who is Kong's wife.
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Mr N. Sreenivasan, lawyer for accused church leader Tan Ye Peng, noted that external lawyers for Xtron had found nothing wrong with allegedly suspect transactions at the time they were carried out.
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He asked Mr Choong: "Did the lawyers warn you that (the bond investments) were an improper use of the CHC fund?"
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City Harvest Church's former finance managers, Serina Wee (rear 2nd L) and Sharon Tan (front R) leave the subordinate courts for lunch break during the City Harvest trial on August 28, 2013.
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Serina Wee leaves the subordinate courts for lunch break during the City Harvest trial on August 28, 2013.
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Serina Wee leaves the subordinate courts for lunch break during the City Harvest trial on August 28, 2013.
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Serina Wee Gek Yin
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Kong Hee, founder of City Harvest Church
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Serina Wee Gek Yin
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Kong Hee and Ho Yeow Sun arrive at the Subordinate Courts on August 28.
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They walk hand-in-hand towards the court.
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The City Harvest Church founder smiled as reporters approached him.
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Serina Wee arrives on August 28 morning.
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She is in a green dress, and accompanied by a woman in a dark-coloured shirt.
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Chew Eng Han arrives on August 28 for the trial.
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Chew Eng Han, one of the six accused of embezzling more than $50 million from City Harvest Church to fund the secular pop music career of church founder Kong Hee’s wife, Ms Ho Yeow Sun.
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Serina Wee at the subordinate courts on August 27, 2013.
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Kong Hee leaving the court with his lawyers.
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Mr Choong Kar Weng, a director of Xtron Productions – which managed Sun Ho’s music career – and a former City Harvest Church (CHC) board member, outside the Subordinate Courts on 27 August 2013. He is the prosecution’s witness for the second leg of the CHC trial.
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Kong Hee leaving the court with his lawyers.
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Leaders of City Harvest Church allegedly doctored documents to show that sponsors had given the money to her as "personal gifts".
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Prosecutors tried to show that Ms Ho's former management company, Xtron Productions, was a puppet company her husband, Kong Hee.
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Kong Hee, founder of City Harvest Church, arriving at the court.
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Senior pastor and founding member Tan Ye Peng, arriving at the court as the trial continues.
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Sharon Tan Shao Yuen
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Chew Eng Han.
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John Lam Leng Hung
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Singer Ho Yeow Sun allegedly received more than half a million in bonuses and advances.
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These include a $30,000 birthday cash gift and an $80,000 "special performance bonus for hits in the US or the United Kingdom" in 2006.
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Serina Wee leaves the subordinate courts for lunch break during the City Harvest trial on August 26, 2013.
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Wee was handling music firm Xtron Productions' finances even when she was an employee of the church, the state sought to show.
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Serina Wee, a leader of City Harvest Church.
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The first morning of the resumed City Harvest trial saw congregation members gather again in force at the crack of dawn at the Subordinate Courts to show their support.
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By 7am, a steadily growing queue of more than 50 people had formed.
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The earliest of the arrivals had come at about 4am.
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Church members had begun queuing from as early as 4am for seats.
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They stood or sat quietly in groups of two and three, some reading up on previous media reports.
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One young church member said that he had come as this "was a big case. A big case for us, a big case for Singapore."
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One person had taken time off from work and woken at 5am to snag himself a place in the public gallery, which seats about 100 people over two sessions.
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One person had taken time off from work and woken at 5am to snag himself a place in the public gallery, which seats about 100 people over two sessions.
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A property agent said he intended to attend the trial as often as he could, up to three times a week.
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Finance manager Sharon Tan Shao Yuen, arriving at the court. 6 church leaders were charged last year with misusing $24 million in church monies.
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Senior pastor and founding member Tan Ye Peng, arriving at the court.
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Former finance manager with City Harvest Church, Serina Wee Gek Yin, arriving at the Court.
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Serina Wee arrived at 9am, closely followed by its senior pastor and founding member Tan Ye Peng.
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City Harvest church founder Kong Hee entered the Subordinate Courts on Monday morning hand in hand with pop-singer wife Ho Yeow Sun, on the first day of the resumed trial.
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They arrived at about 9.20am, accompanied by two people. Kong was smiling broadly as he entered the courthouse.
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Few church members lingered outside the courthouse this time around to show their support.
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Those who had queued for seats in the courtroom public gallery trickled in in small groups.
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"Ultimately the directors and shareholders of Xtron had to approve my directorship, but Xtron and City Harvest were working very closely at the time to pursue a piece of land, so I assumed it was quite normal for them to discuss these matters," Choong said.
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Serina Wee at the subordinate courts on May 16, 2013. She is facing criminal breach of trust charges along with City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee and four church leaders.
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Mr Choong Kar Weng said he was invited to take up the Xtron directorship by Kong, even though the megachurch founder did not hold any appointments in the company.
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Kong and the five other church leaders were charged last year with conspiring to cheat the megachurch of millions of dollars.
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They allegedly misused $24 million of church funds to bankroll Ms Ho's singing ambitions, and purportedly took another $26 million to cover up the first amount.
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Serina Wee arriving at the subordinate courts with her husband Kenny Low on July 25, 2012.
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Sun Ho's website hacked
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The individual who hacked into co-founder of City Harvest Chuch and pop singer Ho Yeow Sun's website has resurfaced with more rants against her and husband, church pastor Kong Hee.
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The website, hosted on a Spanish domain, answered a list of eight questions and explained why Ho's website was attacked.
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Sun Ho's personal website has been vandalised by a hacker who signed off as 'The Messiah'.
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In place of the singer's photos and blog posts, the site now displays a long message directed at the singer, the wife of City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee.
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The message claims to expose her 'hidden agenda' and includes several pictures of her, including one taken while she was a child.
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The hacker closes with the statement "You do not want to displease me any further, especially since I could be the second coming.