> Overview of charges in Ren Ci case

Ming Yi. PHOTO: TNP

GOH KAH HENG, also known as SHI MING YI

Role: Founder of Ren Ci and its former CEO

Age: 46

Alleged to have:

• Asked staff member to include false information in minutes of Ren Ci management committee meeting in July 2001

He allegedly asked person to state he did not owe Ren Ci money and that it was Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre that owed charity $616,450.52

Mandala was a Buddhist artefacts shop and Goh was one of two registered owners.

• Provided misleading information to Commissioner of Charities (COC) three times between 1998 and 2001, in relation to $842,800, which he allegedly owed Ren Ci

• Providing false information to COC last year by claiming that a $50,000 loan by Ren Ci to Mandala was for Mandala to buy wood

• Misappropriated $50,000 of Ren Ci’s money in May 2004 by approving a $50,000 loan to Raymond Yeung Chi Hang.

• Misappropriated $300,000 of Ren Ci’s money in March last year to offset outstanding loans owed by Mandala.

• Conspired with Yeung to falsify a document belonging to Ren Ci, by stating that $50,000 loan was made by Ren Ci to Mandala in May2004

• Conspired with Yeung to provide false information to COC regarding delivery of two statues worth $16,000 to Mandala in January this year.

• Conspired with Phua Seow Hwa to provide false information to COC that $300,000 out of a $600,000 purported donation to Ren Ci was a friendly loan to himself

Pang Leong Chuan. PHOTO: ST

PANG LEONG CHUAN 彭良泉

Role: An ex-employee of Ren Ci and Shi’s friend

Age: 27

Alleged to have:

• Possessed DVDs containing seven obscene films and 11 uncensored films on 18 Feb this year at Cornwall Gardens

• Possessed a laptop containing 77 obscene films at the same place that day

• Possessed DVDs and VCDs containing 33 obscene films and 10 uncensored films at his Tampines home on 18 and 20 Feb this year

RAYMOND YEUNG CHI HANG

Role: Shi’s personal assistant

Age: 33

Alleged to have:

• Conspired with him to falsify a Ren Ci document, by stating that a $50,000 loan was made by Ren Ci to Mandala in May 2004

• Conspired to provide false information to the COC regarding the delivery of two statues to Mandala in January this year

Phua Seow Hwa. PHOTO: TNP

Phua Seow Hwa.

Role: Manager of Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre’s technical resource centre

Age: 47

Alleged to have:

• Conspired to provide false information to the COC in a letter that $300,000 out of a $600,000 purported donation to Ren Ci was a friendly loan to Shi Ming Yi

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