Admin worker from Toa Payoh temple took S$38,799 from donations and funds to dine at restaurants, shop for groceries

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Admin worker from Toa Payoh temple took S$38,799 from donations and funds to dine at restaurants, shop for groceries
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SINGAPORE — Lured by the large sums of money she handled in her role as the administrative assistant of a temple, Tham Lai Ying pocketed S$38,799 of the temple’s funds between March and May 2022.

Admin worker from Toa Payoh temple took S$38,799 from donations and funds to dine at restaurants, shop for groceries

Her misdeeds were found out in late May 2022, when the finance executive of the Toa Payoh Seu Teck Sean Tong temple, where Tham was employed, discovered that she had failed to submit some of her utilised receipt books. As the administrative assistant there, she was entrusted to collect membership fees from the temple’s members and collect the donations from the public for charitable causes.

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