SINGAPORE: City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee was listed as an "invisible" manager in the minutes of a meeting that laid out the management structure of Xtron Productions, while another church board member Suraj was listed as “ghost director”, the court heard on Friday (Aug 22).
The prosecution produced the minutes of the meeting in 2008, in a bid to show that Xtron was controlled by the church and being used to funnel church monies to finance the secular pop music career of Kong's wife Sun Ho.
Xtron was Ms Ho's artiste management firm at the time.
In defence, Kong said he was listed because of his role in negotiating and liaising with the American producers for Ms Ho's US album. He added that he is an "invisible patron" of many organisations because of his position as a pastor.
Kong has maintained that the church and Xtron are independent entities operating at arm's length from each other.
Earlier, Kong said that he was "disappointed" that auditor Foong Daw Ching seemed to have distanced himself from advice he had allegedly given to the accused persons about disclosing Xtron's relationship with the church to its executive members.
But the prosecution has charged that the Kong and his co-accused had not fully disclosed all the necessary information to the church's auditors.
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