What Are Your Predictions for City Harvest Case? Guilty or Not?

[Cuntworth]

Originally Posted by arsenal168

1) Cos she not the DPP’s main target in this saga?

2) Or cos can’t find concrete evidence that she knew or was involved in this 乾坤大挪移?

Anyway, it is good that this saga is finally concluded & the church n her pple can move on.

When everybody had served their jail terms and be released... The whole CHC members will be lining up again to be brainwashed again by them. Cycle will be rerun again .

[poundsilver]

Originally Posted by redzar

Finally the case over . I wonder how come Kong Hee's wife was not charged ?

You can plug something into her and get her charged .

[Irrumare]

Originally Posted by poundsilver

You can plug something into her and get her charged .

Is it a butt plug?

[Cuntworth]

Dun even understand anything abt the MV..

[skyleon]

Government believes City Harvest sentences too low, will look at amending law: Shanmugam


05 Feb 2018 12:37PM (Updated: 05 Feb 2018 03:40PM)


SINGAPORE: The Government believes the City Harvest Church (CHC) sentences are too low, and will move to ensure legislation provides for higher penalties for senior officers who commit criminal breaches of trust (CBT), said Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on Monday (Feb 5) in Parliament.

He was reflecting the Government's position on the apex court’s decision last week to uphold shorter jail terms for CHC founder Kong Hee and five other former church leaders accused of misusing church funds amounting to millions.

This resulted from a new interpretation of the Penal Code section governing CBT offences, which led to the Court of Appeal ruling that company directors, governing board members or key officers of charities and officers of societies who commit CBT could be jailed up to seven years - compared to employees being liable for a maximum 15 years imprisonment.

The Court of Appeal subsequently called for a policy review of CBT legislation and the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) said it would work with relevant ministries to do so.

Said Mr Shanmugam: “The Government’s policy is clear: If you are a senior officer, director in the organisation, you are in a position of greater trust. You have considerable authority to make decisions in relation to the organisation’s assets. If you abuse that trust, you should be more culpable, and you should be liable for more severe punishments, compared with an ordinary employee.”

“That's really common sense, and there can be no question about that.”

“It is now up to Parliament to amend the law,” he added. “And that we should do, soon. We hope to make the amendment together with the other wide ranging amendments to the Penal Code.”

“LET’S NOT ATTACK THE JUDGES”

Mr Shanmugam also addressed public dissatisfaction with the outcome, noting that “expressing one’s unhappiness with court decisions is fine – but it should not sink to the level of abuse, insult and contempt”.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...ook-at-9927828

[skyleon]

'Fake news' about lawyer who defended City Harvest now an AGC matter, could be case of contempt

Law Minister K Shanmugam also says the police will take action against all other instances which “cross the threshold” into scandalising the courts.


05 Feb 2018 02:35PM (Updated: 05 Feb 2018 02:58PM)

SINGAPORE: The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is looking into a piece of “fake news” relating to the City Harvest Church (CHC) saga as a case of contempt by scandalising the courts, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on Monday (Feb 5) in Parliament.

After announcing the Government’s view of the sentences as “too low”, he was asked by Member of Parliament (MP) Gan Thiam Poh for his take on the public commenting how the CHC case was handled by a lawyer who is also an MP from the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) - Mr Edwin Tong of Marine Parade.

In response, Mr Shanmugam gave an example of a public Facebook group which last week circulated a doctored front page image of local Chinese tabloid Lianhe Wanbao. The original, translated title of “Outdated law ‘saved’ the accused from harsher penalties” had been changed to “PAP lawyer ‘saved’ the accused from harsher penalties”.

Mr Shanmugam said: “AGC takes the view that the suggestion from the fake title is that the PAP MP was responsible for an unfair, unjust outcome and the Courts have let off the defendants lightly because of him.

“The matter is with AGC and will be dealt with in accordance with the law.”

“This sort of attack based on deliberate faking is quite unacceptable,” he continued. “I cannot see how any reasonable person will justify such faking a legitimate expression of free speech.”

Earlier, Mr Shanmugam also said that attacks on the CHC judges “ascribing improper ulterior motives to their decision” was “a clear case of abusing the anonymity of the Net”.

“People who abuse judges, challenge their integrity, will be prosecuted if a case for contempt can be made out. Courts should be free to decide in accordance with what they believe the law to be, and criminal cases must be tried in the court of law - not in the court of public opinion.”

He added: “We don’t want to end up like the United Kingdom, where the press freely attacks the judiciary. You get newspaper headlines labelling judges as enemies of the people, because the courts had the temerity to decide in a way the media did not like. If we are not careful we will easily go down that route.”

“I’ve asked the police to take a serious view of those who scandalise court - not only for this case, if there are other comments which cross the threshold and are in contempt of court, our approach is that action will be taken,” Mr Shanmugam noted.

“In coming to a decision whether to prosecute for scandalising the courts, the factors will include assessing who said it, how seriously is the statement likely to be taken, how wide was the publication, and other relevant factors.”

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...nmugam-9928278

[skyleon]

Originally Posted by redzar

Finally the case over . I wonder how come Kong Hee's wife was not charged ?

Minister K Shanmugam: Sun Ho is as innocent as a charity

February 5, 2018



Despite barking loudly about how he believe the Court let off the former City Harvest Church leaders too lightly, Law Minister K Shanmugam jumped to the defence of Kong Hee’s wife, Sun Ho, who was the sole recipient of the S$50 million fraud.

Referencing Sun Ho’s receiving the defrauded money to a “charity”, Minister K Shanmugam said:

“One has got to be careful about this. A beneficiary who receives proceeds without the appropriate knowledge does not automatically become a criminal. Supposing the person took the money and donated to another charity – does the recipient commit a criminal offence? We need to be careful.”

Church leader Sun Ho spent S$50 million of church funds on her doomed singing career, and the scam eventually become insolvent as more funds are needed to compensate for her terrible singing. Interestingly, the Singapore Court actually believed her words when she said she thought the S$50 million were actual investments into her “talent”. Sun Ho was not charged, while 6 other church leaders, including her pastor husband Kong Hee, were jailed between 6 months and 3½ years.

Law Minister K Shanmugam called for Singaporeans to “accept the sentence because it is the law”:


continue reading here : http://statestimesreview.com/2018/02...-as-a-charity/

[skyleon]

Ex-City Harvest Church fund manager Chew Eng Han arrested after trying to flee Singapore by boat



By Aqil Haziq Mahmud @AqilHaziqCNA

21 Feb 2018 05:19PM (Updated: 21 Feb 2018 06:29PM)



SINGAPORE: Former City Harvest Church fund manager Chew Eng Han was arrested on Wednesday morning (Feb 21) for attempting to flee the country in a sampan, the police said at a news conference.

The 57-year-old, one of six church leaders convicted in 2015 of misappropriating S$50 million of church funds, was due to turn himself in on Thursday to begin his jail term.

Another man, 53-year-old Tan Poh Teck, who was was piloting the motorised sampan, was also arrested. It is understood that Tan had a fish farm near the spot where they were arrested.

In a split decision by the High Court last April, Chew had his original six-year jail sentence lowered to three years and four months. Chew is the only one of the six who has not started serving his jail term for criminal breach of trust and falsification of accounts.

Three Police Coast Guard boats intercepted the motorised sampan in the sea off Pulau Ubin at about 8.47am on Wednesday after acting on a tip-off. About S$5,000 and fishing equipment was found on the boat. ​​​​​​

The people in the boat said they were going fishing when they were surrounded by the Police Coast Guard vessels about 750m away from the Pulau Ubin jetty, Channel NewsAsia understands. However, preliminary police investigations suggest the boat was headed to Malaysia.

It is understood that the two men on the sampan did not resist arrest.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...o-flee-9977688


He really dam stupid .

[Cuntworth]

Dumb twit
Trying to escape by water might as well go under the water snorkeling all the way better

[robinyates]

This only confirms 1 thing . He is guilty as hell .

[Susanne]

Originally Posted by robinyates

This only confirms 1 thing . He is guilty as hell .

Confirm + chop . Guilty go hell .

[Jinzo]

Really have $5000.00 cash with him just to go fishing ?

[ibanezjem555]

His $5000 is to buy passage out only. Stash the cash somewhere overseas already.

Coast guard boat has radar that can detect anything just above the waves at long distances. But Mat Salamat float across, the boats like blur blob !

Still in this case, 3 boats chun chun can converge so efficiently and arrest target.

Wonder who gave the tipoff ?

[skyleon]

Jumping bail to be an offence under proposed changes to Criminal Procedure Code: Shanmugam


22 Feb 2018 04:59PM (Updated: 22 Feb 2018 05:32PM)




SINGAPORE: Jumping bail will be made a criminal offence, as part of proposed changes to the Criminal Procedure Code, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Thursday (Feb 22).

There will also be stricter criteria for those who want to post bail, and authorities are considering electronic tagging to monitor those on bail, he added.

Speaking at the Police Cantonment Complex, Mr Shanmugam made clear that the proposed changes are not triggered by the case of former City Harvest Church leader Chew Eng Han, who was arrested on Wednesday morning for attempting to flee the country in a motorised sampan.

Chew was on bail of S$1 million when he was caught.

"It will come as a surprise to many that jumping bail is not in itself an offence. You put up bail and you lose your bail but we haven’t made that an offence. Jumping bail will be made an offence," said Mr Shanmugam.

"We will be tightening up the bail conditions – not as a result of this case - as I said, the Bill is already ready it will be put in Parliament next week."

POLICE CANNOT BE TRACKING EVERY PERSON ON BAIL: SHANMUGAM

Mr Shanmugam said the question of jumping bail has been on his mind for some time, even before Chew's attempted escape bid, as it is "too much of a burden" to expect the police to keep track of every single person on bail.

"At any given time, from the time you’re charged to the time your case comes to court, it can be months, it can be even longer," he pointed out.

"In some cases, you are in remand, but obviously from a public good perspective, we don’t want to keep people in remand. We want to try and help them lead their lives outside until the case is disposed of and a verdict is given ... So at any given time, you have thousands of persons on bail, walking around."

Monitoring them is "not the best use of police resources," he added. "Police should be focused on counter-terrorism, on solving crimes."

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...iminal-9981116



I thought somebody said that one cannot comment about the case when it is in process ? Can be considered as contempt of court ?

[ibanezjem555]

This Ah Neh is a Nah Bu Neh ! Pay him $1 million,now then come up with revisions.

Not proactive at all and he is jia liao bee. Suppose to tarok hard hard like City Harvest swindlers,he waver. Come to Amos Yee, the talk-cock king, he tarok bcos the boy no go army yet no armpit hair easy to takan.

Come to 38 OR, boh lampah.. this type of Ah Neh is the biggest snake !