Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Xtron planned to give City Harvest S$10m discount on 'advance rental': CHC finance manager (CNA: 18th Sept 2014)

SINGAPORE: City Harvest Church finance manager Sharon Tan cried on Wednesday (Sep 17), her fourth day on the stand.

She was being questioned by her lawyer, Senior Counsel Kannan Ramesh, about one of her statements, when the tears flowed. It was not known what caused her to cry, and the trial was adjourned soon after.

In today's session, the Court was shown a statement Tan gave to the Commercial Affairs Department in 2010. In it, she said there were plans for the church to pay production house Xtron a fee of S$56 million for eight years of "advance rental" valued at S$7 million a year.

However, Tan today clarified that the amount was S$46 million, not S$56 million. This was because Xtron had earlier indicated it would give the church a "discount".

Xtron was started by three church members, to own and manage future buildings the church could use consistently for its growing congregation.

Tan's lawyer had questioned her about the statement to confirm it was consistent with her testimony over the past four days. She replied that it was.

The trial continues on Thursday (Sep 18).

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