Singapore church leaders jailed for pop venture fraud

City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee leaves the district courts in Singapore on November 20, 2015. -AFP

SINGAPORE: Six Christian church leaders in Singapore were jailed Friday for misusing more than $35 million of church funds to turn the pastor’s wife into a global pop star.

State prosecutors said the failed project, which the church defended as an attempt to attract converts but involved raunchy music videos, was the biggest charity scandal in Singapore history.