The defence of the six City Harvest Church leaders on Wednesday sought to refute allegations that Xtron Productions was controlled by the church.
At the start of the cross-examination of Xtron's director, Choong Kar Weng, defence counsel Kenneth Tan tried to make the point that even though his client, John Lam, was involved in email discussions about Xtron, execution of any suggestion ultimately lies with the Xtron director.
Mr Choong, who is taking the stand for the third day, agreed.
The prosecution witness also testified that John Lam was not involved in managing Xtron.
This comes after the prosecution alleged that Mr Choong was a rubber stamp and that the church was the one controlling his firm.
On Tuesday, the prosecution charged that the accused Serina Wee, Chew Eng Han and Tan Ye Peng took pains to plan and hide information from church members.
Xtron is the former management company of singer Sun Ho, who is also church founder Kong Hee's wife.
The events firm is allegedly one of three companies used by the six accused to commit their offences.
On Wednesday, when questioned by lawyer Edwin Tong, who represents Kong Hee, Mr Choong said the church's board management knew that Xtron was managing Ms Ho's career as well as the Crossover Project.
The Crossover Project is meant to reach out to the secular world through pop music.
The court heard how the church and Xtron were trying to further Ms Ho's career in the United States.
Emails dated as early as 2006 between Justin Herz, owner of a music production house in California, Kong Hee and Tan Ye Peng showed that they were trying to manage the budget.
Mr Herz and a Ms Lisa Ellis also projected that Ms Ho's album sales would be about two million.
But the court was told previously that accused Serina Wee indicated Ms Ho's album only sold 200,000 copies.
In fact, Mr Herz and Ms Ellis said in their projections that revenue would exceed the S$13 million bonds that Xtron had issued.
The Xtron bonds were to raise funds for Ms Ho's music.
Kong Hee, along with five others, faces varying counts of misusing millions of church building funds.
The prosecution's case is that they channelled the money into two companies - Xtron and PT the First National Glassware (Firna) - through "sham bond investments".
The funds were said to have been used to boost the music career of Ms Ho.
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