Minutes from a board meeting involving Xtron Productions, a music production company alleged to have been used by City Harvest to siphon off church funds, reveal that over S$10 million was spent on an album that was supposed to kickstart Ho Yeow Sun’s career in the US.
Ho Yeow Sun is the wife of City Harvest founder, Kong Hee, who along with other senior church leaders, is on trial for misappropriating S$24 million of church funds to finance Sun's singing career.
In addition, over S$26 million in church money was allegedly misappropriated to cover up the original diversion.
The S$10 million figure came from minutes of an Xtron board meeting, which was shown in court on Tuesday.
According to the minutes, over US $1.6 million was spent on production fees for rap music star Wyclef Jean, who collaborated with Sun on the song, "China Wine", whose music video cost US$1 million to produce.
Xtron directors also approved an additional $2 million to produce Ho’s album “in order to get some popular song artistes and singers from USA be involved in the album”, the minutes showed. The album was also never released.
Minutes also showed Xtron paid for Sun Ho's travel expenses in business class as she "had a very busy promotional schedule", reported The Straits Times.
On Monday, the paper also reported that Sun had received over half a million dollars in bonuses and advances that were couched as "personal gifts" by sponsors in doctored documents.
(Blogger's note: every time I see this figures, I can't help asking myself, now looking back, does she think it is worth it? And US$2,600,000 for china wine? Seriously?)
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