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Thursday 28 June 2012
Who is City Harvest's Wahju Hanafi?
Indonesian businessman Wahju Hanafi, the other beneficiary of funds allegedly diverted from City Harvest Church (CHC) to further Sun Ho's music career, is a man with multiple links to the church, its founder Kong Hee and affiliated companies.
An Indonesian with multiple links to Kong and affiliates
Teh Shi Ning 28 June 2012
Indonesian businessman Wahju Hanafi, the other beneficiary of funds allegedly diverted from City Harvest Church (CHC) to further Sun Ho's music career, is a man with multiple links to the church, its founder Kong Hee and affiliated companies.
The prosecution's charges against Kong and four other senior CHC members yesterday said that alleged dishonest transfers of $11 million from CHC's building fund to PT The First National Glassware between Oct 6, 2008 and June 19, 2009 were meant to fund Ms Ho's career and "for the purpose of providing funds to one Wahju Hanafi".
Mr Hanafi joined the church in the early 1990s, Kong wrote in a 2008 article in CHC newsletter Harvest Times. In that article, Kong also mentions that Mr Hanafi bought a major glass factory in Indonesia in early 2007, tripling his personal net worth.
Back in 1986, he founded Super Value Stores, a general merchandise retail chain which now has 14 branches and more than 1,100 employees, according to its corporate website. Mr Hanafi is listed as its managing director.
Information from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) shows that Mr Hanafi is a Singapore permanent resident who is both a director and shareholder of two other locally registered companies: Harvest Glass and Creative Glass.
Acra records also show that Mr Hanafi used to hold posts in companies linked to CHC, Kong and his wife, Ms Ho.
He was a director from June 2003 to July 2008 of Xtron Productions, which according to media reports is Ms Ho's artiste management firm and which also supplies the church with video and audio equipment. Xtron is one of the two companies that the five are alleged to have diverted church funds to.
From September 2004 to January 2005, Mr Hanafi was also a director of Skin Couture, the fashion retailer co-owned by Kong and Ms Ho.
Media reports yesterday said that the Sentosa Cove penthouse that Kong, his wife and their seven-year-old son now live in is registered under two names: Kong Hee and Wahju Hanafi.
Mr Hanafi was also mentioned in the Commissioner of Charities' (COC) release on Tuesday as having donated $600,000 to CHC's building fund.
COC said that some senior church members came up with a plan around April 2009 to transfer Mr Hanafi's donation from the building fund to a private account, to finance a project aimed at connecting with non-Christians via Ms Ho's secular music.
The inquiry found that CHC had drafted letters from Mr Hanafi and another person indicating that their donations were "love gifts" to specific CHC pastors and employees. But evidence uncovered by the commission suggested that these "refund" letters were backdated.
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Who is City Harvest's Wahju Hanafi?
An Indonesian with multiple links to Kong and affiliates
Teh Shi Ning
28 June 2012
Indonesian businessman Wahju Hanafi, the other beneficiary of funds allegedly diverted from City Harvest Church (CHC) to further Sun Ho's music career, is a man with multiple links to the church, its founder Kong Hee and affiliated companies.
The prosecution's charges against Kong and four other senior CHC members yesterday said that alleged dishonest transfers of $11 million from CHC's building fund to PT The First National Glassware between Oct 6, 2008 and June 19, 2009 were meant to fund Ms Ho's career and "for the purpose of providing funds to one Wahju Hanafi".
Mr Hanafi joined the church in the early 1990s, Kong wrote in a 2008 article in CHC newsletter Harvest Times. In that article, Kong also mentions that Mr Hanafi bought a major glass factory in Indonesia in early 2007, tripling his personal net worth.
Back in 1986, he founded Super Value Stores, a general merchandise retail chain which now has 14 branches and more than 1,100 employees, according to its corporate website. Mr Hanafi is listed as its managing director.
Information from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) shows that Mr Hanafi is a Singapore permanent resident who is both a director and shareholder of two other locally registered companies: Harvest Glass and Creative Glass.
Acra records also show that Mr Hanafi used to hold posts in companies linked to CHC, Kong and his wife, Ms Ho.
He was a director from June 2003 to July 2008 of Xtron Productions, which according to media reports is Ms Ho's artiste management firm and which also supplies the church with video and audio equipment. Xtron is one of the two companies that the five are alleged to have diverted church funds to.
From September 2004 to January 2005, Mr Hanafi was also a director of Skin Couture, the fashion retailer co-owned by Kong and Ms Ho.
Media reports yesterday said that the Sentosa Cove penthouse that Kong, his wife and their seven-year-old son now live in is registered under two names: Kong Hee and Wahju Hanafi.
Mr Hanafi was also mentioned in the Commissioner of Charities' (COC) release on Tuesday as having donated $600,000 to CHC's building fund.
COC said that some senior church members came up with a plan around April 2009 to transfer Mr Hanafi's donation from the building fund to a private account, to finance a project aimed at connecting with non-Christians via Ms Ho's secular music.
The inquiry found that CHC had drafted letters from Mr Hanafi and another person indicating that their donations were "love gifts" to specific CHC pastors and employees. But evidence uncovered by the commission suggested that these "refund" letters were backdated.
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