Church funds used in 2001 for 'MTV'

City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee (R) walks out for a lunch break with his pop-singer wife Ho Yeow Sun (L) during his trial at the subordinate courts in Singapore. - Filepic

City Harvest Church funds were already used as early as in 2001 to fund the secular pop music career of founder Kong Hee’s wife Ho Yeow Sun, court documents showed.

An item in the church’s 2001 audit indicated “cost of production – MTV”. That audit was managed by Baker Tilly’s Tiang Yii, who continued on the stand for a second day as a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial against Kong and five others for varying counts of criminal breach of trust and falsifying accounts.