SINGAPORE — Tempted by the donations and membership fees she helped to collect, an administrative assistant of a temple pocketed S$38,799 of the temple's funds.
SINGAPORE — Tempted by the donations and membership fees she helped to collect, an administrative assistant of a temple pocketed S$38,799 of the temple's funds.New: You can now listen to articles.The former administrative assistant had misappropriated S$38,799 from a temple in Toa Payoh where she was working at the timeSINGAPORE — Tempted by the donations and membership fees she helped to collect, an administrative assistant of a temple pocketed S$38,799 of the temple's funds.
Once the receipt book was fully used, Tham would hand over the book with the duplicate receipts and the associated cash collected to the temple's finance executive. Of the S$38,799 Tham pocketed, S$1,000 was from membership fees. The rest was donations meant for charitable causes."The accused did so out of greed upon seeing the large sums of cash collected," court documents stated.
The secretary-general of the temple then made a police report on June 20, 2022, and Tham was arrested a week later.On Tuesday, Deputy Public Prosecutor Lim Li Ting called for a sentence of 11 to 12 months' jail.The prosecutor added that Tham had also breached public trust as most of the money she misappropriated was donations meant for charity purposes.
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