Monday, June 11, 2007

Former head of Singapore's biggest charity found guilty of cheating

http://nationmultimedia.com/worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30036533: "Former head of Singapore's biggest charity found guilty of cheating

Singapore - The former head of Singapore's biggest charity was found guilty Monday of falsifying documents and faces up to five years in jail.

T.T. Durai, the former chief executive of the National Kidney Foundation, also faces a maximum fine of 100,000 Singapore dollars (65,359 US).

District judge Aedit Abdullah said evidence submitted during the trial showed Durai was guilty of deliberately cheating the foundation with a false invoice of 20,000 dollars.

The judge said Durai intended to cheat the foundation with the false invoice to pay a firm for consultancy services when in actual fact it was to reward an associate for his fund-raising efforts.

'Having come to the conclusion therefore that the charge was made out, I accordingly find the accused guilty and convict him,' the judge said."

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