On 7/4/2017, City Harvest Church founder and senior pastor Kong Hee had his reduced from eight years of his sentence to 3.5 years. This was the final outcome on their plea against their verdict after being found guilty in Oct 2015 of embezzling about S$50 million of church funds.
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This case has the largest amount ever misappropriated in Singapore amounting to S$50 million. Without the congregation knowing the money has been used to fund the music career of pastor’s wife Sun Ho which was donated by tens of thousands of worshippers.