I have been reading some online blogs on monk Ming Yi and it seems that he is one naughty monk.
The blogs was written by people who obviously knew him and worked with him. One thing they mentioned was that he had a temper. Yes, a FOUL temper! Apparently sometimes he gets set off and he goes into this shouting mode. Not quite the sweet, soft spoken, mild manner impression we had of him.
And when that happened, people treaded softly around him as not to provoke him further.
By the way, all these are rumors I read online. I was never employed by Ming Yi, never worked for him before, so I dun know how he is like in person. (and I dun watch obscene films)
Sounds like all my ex bosses and CEOs. In fact, i dun think I have worked for a boss who dun shout. And it is definitely NOT because of incompetent or inefficient/ineffective employees. You dun get to be top dog or management without seriously doing some shouting and screaming at staff.
I once worked for a boss, who was very prominent in the manpower industry. And boy, he loves to shout and raise his voice. I resigned after 2 years cos I felt like a lightning rod. I was working too close to him and anything happened, I get shouted at first. But otherwise he was a very nice person.
Okay, back to monk Ming Yi. Apparently the fellow has expensive taste. He has been seen with LV luggages, Timberland and even Prada shoes. And he was said to own a Patek Philippe watch. And he was driven about in a BMW!
Do you know how much such a watch cost? The cheapest is around $10K. And average is $50k, with some up to $100k.
Yeah...yeah....all gifts.....that's what he would say. But just because someone gives you such expensive gifts mean you can accept and use them. Can't he just sell them off or donate them?
And yeah....did I forget to mention the fellow also lived (sometimes) in a upscaled condo apartment in Holland Road valued at about $2 million? And he was often seen dining in expensive restaurants?
Wonder if he flies economy or business class when he travels? First class?
I was telling SO this and he asked,"Can a monk do all these? Own all these?"
Yeah, Ming Yi has been very naughty indeed.
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The Straits Times
16 July 2008
REN CI PROBE
10 Charges against Ming Yi
The blogs was written by people who obviously knew him and worked with him. One thing they mentioned was that he had a temper. Yes, a FOUL temper! Apparently sometimes he gets set off and he goes into this shouting mode. Not quite the sweet, soft spoken, mild manner impression we had of him.
And when that happened, people treaded softly around him as not to provoke him further.
By the way, all these are rumors I read online. I was never employed by Ming Yi, never worked for him before, so I dun know how he is like in person. (and I dun watch obscene films)
Sounds like all my ex bosses and CEOs. In fact, i dun think I have worked for a boss who dun shout. And it is definitely NOT because of incompetent or inefficient/ineffective employees. You dun get to be top dog or management without seriously doing some shouting and screaming at staff.
I once worked for a boss, who was very prominent in the manpower industry. And boy, he loves to shout and raise his voice. I resigned after 2 years cos I felt like a lightning rod. I was working too close to him and anything happened, I get shouted at first. But otherwise he was a very nice person.
Okay, back to monk Ming Yi. Apparently the fellow has expensive taste. He has been seen with LV luggages, Timberland and even Prada shoes. And he was said to own a Patek Philippe watch. And he was driven about in a BMW!
Do you know how much such a watch cost? The cheapest is around $10K. And average is $50k, with some up to $100k.
Yeah...yeah....all gifts.....that's what he would say. But just because someone gives you such expensive gifts mean you can accept and use them. Can't he just sell them off or donate them?
And yeah....did I forget to mention the fellow also lived (sometimes) in a upscaled condo apartment in Holland Road valued at about $2 million? And he was often seen dining in expensive restaurants?
Wonder if he flies economy or business class when he travels? First class?
I was telling SO this and he asked,"Can a monk do all these? Own all these?"
Yeah, Ming Yi has been very naughty indeed.
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The Straits Times
16 July 2008
REN CI PROBE
10 Charges against Ming Yi
- Defrauding the charity
- Helping to falsify accounts
- Forgery
- Giving false information
- Sum involved: $300,000
By Chong Chee Kin
BUDDHIST monk Ming Yi, the flamboyant chief of the Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre, was accused yesterday of several offences concerning its financial affairs. The 46-year-old, whose real name is Goh Kah Heng, was charged with defrauding the charity, forgery and helping to falsify its accounts, all offences under the Penal Code.
He was also accused of forging documents to cheat auditors and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities, both before and after a probe was initiated last November by the Ministry of Health (MOH), which is in charge of medical charities.
These are breaches of the Charities Act and Penal Code. The sums involved totalled about $300,000. Ming Yi faces up to a year's jail for providing false information to the Commissioner, and up to seven years' jail for forgery. Accompanied by a few friends and a team of three lawyers headed by Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, the saffron-robed monk had the 10 charges read to him in English in a district court.
Ren Ci is the second large charity involved in court proceedings following the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal that ended with its former chief T.T. Durai going to jail. Like the NKF, Ren Ci ran big annual fund-raising shows which reaped millions of dollars in donations, and the highlight every year was a stunt performed by Ming Yi. In the wake of the probe, Ren Ci, which runs a hospital for the chronically ill, lost its right to promise its donors tax exemptions.
Yesterday, a solemn Ming Yi found himself accused of fiddling with the charity's accounts by re-classifying personal loans he took from it. He is said to have moved those loans to the Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre, a business he had a share in, or categorised them as part of advances given to him to invest on behalf of Ren Ci.
He is also accused of trying to cover his tracks by showing investigators fake documents to back his claims. He is said to have conspired with two others to produce the false documents to mislead the Commissioner of Charities. Raymond Yeung Chi Hang, 33, Ming Yi's former personal executive, and David Phua Seow Hwa, 47, a manager at Ren Ci, were named as his co-conspirators and charged yesterday too.
Other charges relate to a $50,000 loan Ming Yi allegedly made to Yeung while he was Ren Ci's chief executive, and a $300,000 donation. Court documents accuse him of dishonestly misappropriating these sums.
The MOH said in a statement yesterday that the Commissioner of Charities had suspended Ming Yi from his office as the charity's chief executive officer and executive positions in five other charities including Foo Hai Ch'an Monastery where he was abbot. But Ren Ci said Ming Yi had resigned voluntarily. He was freed on bail of $200,000 and is due back in court on Aug 4.
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The New Paper
17 July 2008
Four charged
GOH KAH HENG, also known as SHI MING YI
Role: Founder of Ren Ci and its former CEO
Age: 46
Alleged to have:
BUDDHIST monk Ming Yi, the flamboyant chief of the Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre, was accused yesterday of several offences concerning its financial affairs. The 46-year-old, whose real name is Goh Kah Heng, was charged with defrauding the charity, forgery and helping to falsify its accounts, all offences under the Penal Code.
He was also accused of forging documents to cheat auditors and giving false information to the Commissioner of Charities, both before and after a probe was initiated last November by the Ministry of Health (MOH), which is in charge of medical charities.
These are breaches of the Charities Act and Penal Code. The sums involved totalled about $300,000. Ming Yi faces up to a year's jail for providing false information to the Commissioner, and up to seven years' jail for forgery. Accompanied by a few friends and a team of three lawyers headed by Senior Counsel Andre Yeap, the saffron-robed monk had the 10 charges read to him in English in a district court.
Ren Ci is the second large charity involved in court proceedings following the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal that ended with its former chief T.T. Durai going to jail. Like the NKF, Ren Ci ran big annual fund-raising shows which reaped millions of dollars in donations, and the highlight every year was a stunt performed by Ming Yi. In the wake of the probe, Ren Ci, which runs a hospital for the chronically ill, lost its right to promise its donors tax exemptions.
Yesterday, a solemn Ming Yi found himself accused of fiddling with the charity's accounts by re-classifying personal loans he took from it. He is said to have moved those loans to the Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre, a business he had a share in, or categorised them as part of advances given to him to invest on behalf of Ren Ci.
He is also accused of trying to cover his tracks by showing investigators fake documents to back his claims. He is said to have conspired with two others to produce the false documents to mislead the Commissioner of Charities. Raymond Yeung Chi Hang, 33, Ming Yi's former personal executive, and David Phua Seow Hwa, 47, a manager at Ren Ci, were named as his co-conspirators and charged yesterday too.
Other charges relate to a $50,000 loan Ming Yi allegedly made to Yeung while he was Ren Ci's chief executive, and a $300,000 donation. Court documents accuse him of dishonestly misappropriating these sums.
The MOH said in a statement yesterday that the Commissioner of Charities had suspended Ming Yi from his office as the charity's chief executive officer and executive positions in five other charities including Foo Hai Ch'an Monastery where he was abbot. But Ren Ci said Ming Yi had resigned voluntarily. He was freed on bail of $200,000 and is due back in court on Aug 4.
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The New Paper
17 July 2008
Four charged
GOH KAH HENG, also known as SHI MING YI
Role: Founder of Ren Ci and its former CEO
Age: 46
Alleged to have:
- Asked staff member to include false information in minutes of Ren Ci management committee meeting in July 2001
He allegedly asked person to state he did not owe Ren Ci money and that it was Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre that owed charity $616,450.52. Mandala was a Buddhist artefacts shop and Goh was one of two registered owners.
- Provided misleading information to Commissioner of Charities (COC) three times between 1998 and 2001, in relation to $842,800, which he allegedly owed Ren Ci
- Providing false information to COC last year by claiming that a $50,000 loan by Ren Ci to Mandala was for Mandala to buy wood
- Misappropriated $50,000 of Ren Ci's money in May 2004 by approving a $50,000 loan to Raymond Yeung Chi Hang.
- Misappropriated $300,000 of Ren Ci's money in March last year to offset outstanding loans owed by Mandala.
- Conspired with Yeung to falsify a document belonging to Ren Ci, by stating that $50,000 loan was made by Ren Ci to Mandala in May2004.
- Conspired with Yeung to provide false information to COC regarding delivery of two statues worth $16,000 to Mandala in January this year.
- Conspired with Phua Seow Hwa to provide false information to COC that $300,000 out of a $600,000 purported donation to Ren Ci was a friendly loan to himself
RAYMOND YEUNG CHI HANG
Role: Shi's personal assistant
Age: 33
Alleged to have:
- Conspired with him to falsify a Ren Ci document, by stating that a $50,000 loan was made by Ren Ci to Mandala in May 2004
- Conspired to provide false information to the COC regarding the delivery of two statues to Mandala in January this year
PHUA SEOW HWA
Role: Manager of Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre's technical resource centre
Age: 47
Alleged to have:
- Conspired to provide false information to the COC in a letter that $300,000 out of a $600,000 purported donation to Ren Ci was a friendly loan to Shi Ming Yi
PANG LEONG CHUAN
Role: An ex-employee of Ren Ci and Shi's friend
Age: 27
- Alleged to have: Possessed DVDs containing seven obscene films and 11 uncensored films on 18 Feb this year at Cornwall Gardens Possessed a laptop containing 77 obscene films at the same place that day
- Possessed DVDs and VCDs containing 33 obscene films and 10 uncensored films at his Tampines home on 18 and 20 Feb this year
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