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SINGAPORE: A former accountant of a church has been sentenced to five years' jail for misappropriating more than S$380,000.
Fifty-six-year-old Lim Seng Hoo admitted to two counts of criminal breach of trust.
Lim committed the offences between January 2011 and January 2012 when he was working at the Norwegian Seamen's Mission Church Singapore.
As accountant of the church, Lim was given access to its funds and was made an authorised signatory of the church's bank account.
He was also provided with cheques for this account.
Court documents stated Lim siphoned money from the bank account using various methods.
He would issue cheques to himself first and then deposit the money into his own account or encash the cheques later.
Lim would also use the cheques to make payments for his personal bills.
He would then try to cover his tracks by disguising the outflow of the cash as loans.
In January 2012, the head office of the church in Norway asked about the "unauthorised loans".
Lim said the loans were simply internal transfers of funds.
He was only found out when he could not be contacted.
- CNA/fa
Fifty-six-year-old Lim Seng Hoo admitted to two counts of criminal breach of trust.
Lim committed the offences between January 2011 and January 2012 when he was working at the Norwegian Seamen's Mission Church Singapore.
As accountant of the church, Lim was given access to its funds and was made an authorised signatory of the church's bank account.
He was also provided with cheques for this account.
Court documents stated Lim siphoned money from the bank account using various methods.
He would issue cheques to himself first and then deposit the money into his own account or encash the cheques later.
Lim would also use the cheques to make payments for his personal bills.
He would then try to cover his tracks by disguising the outflow of the cash as loans.
In January 2012, the head office of the church in Norway asked about the "unauthorised loans".
Lim said the loans were simply internal transfers of funds.
He was only found out when he could not be contacted.
- CNA/fa