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Looks like it's going to become an idiomatic Singaporeon answer, "I don't know", when faced with potentially embarrassing and difficult questions.
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April 6, 2009
Didn't know Ming Yi's pay
By Carolyn Quek
Ming Yi (left), 47, is accused of falsifying a Ren Ci document, misappropriating the hospital's money and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities in a document and and an oral statement. --ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
THE management committee of one of Singapore's largest charities did not know how much they were paying their chief executive.
They could have asked, admitted Ren Ci Hospital's long-time committee member Chan Ching Oi, but they did not.
Instead, they let its CEO and founder Ming Yi decide on what he deemed to be a 'fair' salary, Mrs Chan said on the witness stand on Monday while testifying on the third day of a criminal trial against the Buddhist monk.
Ming Yi, 47, is accused of falsifying a Ren Ci document, misappropriating the hospital's money and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities in a document and and an oral statement.
This revelation of how little Ren Ci's management knew of its CEO's salary came up after Deputy Public Prosecutor David Chew quizzed Mrs Chan, 70, about a sudden jump in Ming Yi's salary in 2001 from $16,000 in May to $20,700 in June.
Mrs Chan, who has been Ren Ci's honorary secretary since it started in 1994, admitted that she did not know what Ming Yi's salary was and the management did not pry into it.
When questioned later by Ming Yi's lawyer, Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, Mrs Chan said the committee trusted Ming Yi would give himself a reasonable salary pegged to that of other hospital CEOs and also based on the scope of work undertaken by him for the hospital.
She agreed with Mr Yeap's point that Ming Yi sometimes donated part of his salary to the Foo Hai Ch'an monastery, where he was the abbot.
She also agreed that the committee could have asked how much Ming Yi was paid at any point in time. 'But we would not ask because we knew that he would not overcharge the hospital,' she said.
Mr Yeap also said Ming Yi had stopped drawing a salary from Ren Ci since sometime in 2005 until he was suspended from office in July last year, soon after he was arrested.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
April 6, 2009
Didn't know Ming Yi's pay
By Carolyn Quek
Ming Yi (left), 47, is accused of falsifying a Ren Ci document, misappropriating the hospital's money and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities in a document and and an oral statement. --ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
THE management committee of one of Singapore's largest charities did not know how much they were paying their chief executive.
They could have asked, admitted Ren Ci Hospital's long-time committee member Chan Ching Oi, but they did not.
Instead, they let its CEO and founder Ming Yi decide on what he deemed to be a 'fair' salary, Mrs Chan said on the witness stand on Monday while testifying on the third day of a criminal trial against the Buddhist monk.
Ming Yi, 47, is accused of falsifying a Ren Ci document, misappropriating the hospital's money and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities in a document and and an oral statement.
This revelation of how little Ren Ci's management knew of its CEO's salary came up after Deputy Public Prosecutor David Chew quizzed Mrs Chan, 70, about a sudden jump in Ming Yi's salary in 2001 from $16,000 in May to $20,700 in June.
Mrs Chan, who has been Ren Ci's honorary secretary since it started in 1994, admitted that she did not know what Ming Yi's salary was and the management did not pry into it.
When questioned later by Ming Yi's lawyer, Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, Mrs Chan said the committee trusted Ming Yi would give himself a reasonable salary pegged to that of other hospital CEOs and also based on the scope of work undertaken by him for the hospital.
She agreed with Mr Yeap's point that Ming Yi sometimes donated part of his salary to the Foo Hai Ch'an monastery, where he was the abbot.
She also agreed that the committee could have asked how much Ming Yi was paid at any point in time. 'But we would not ask because we knew that he would not overcharge the hospital,' she said.
Mr Yeap also said Ming Yi had stopped drawing a salary from Ren Ci since sometime in 2005 until he was suspended from office in July last year, soon after he was arrested.
