Kandasamy Senapathi was employed by the Hindu Endowments Board as a priest at Sri Mariamman Temple in the downtown Chinatown district from December 2013 until he resigned on March 30, 2020
Kandasamy Senapathi of Sri Mariamman Temple in South Bridge Road made over (Singaporean) $2.3 million in total by pawning temple jewellery for over five years, The Straits Times reported.He p
Singapore, May 30 (IANS) A 39 year-old Indian priest at Singapore's oldest Hindu temple was jailed for six years on Tuesday for repeatedly pawning jewellery worth over )(Singaporean) $1 million that was used to adorn temple deities, a media report said.
Singapore’s financial management board of Hindu temples to tighten measures to keep track of gold inventory
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The Hindu Endowments Board will also carry out more audits each year, including unannounced ones, Culture Minister Edwin Tong said
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The Hindu Endowments Board will also carry out more audits each year, including unannounced ones, Culture Minister Edwin Tong said Singapore’s Hindu Endowments Board (HEB) is taking steps to improve the tracking of all movements of gold items within the four Hindu temples that it manages, the Culture Minister said on March 1, weeks after a former Indian temple chief priest was charged with misappropriating and pawning gold jewellery. Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, told Parliament on March 1 that the temples’ management committees would tighten oversight of the gold in
Singapore s financial mgt board of Hindu temples to tighten measures to keep track of gold inventory
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Singapore s Hindu Endowments Board (HEB) is taking steps to improve the tracking of all movements of gold items within the four Hindu temples that it manages, the culture minister said on Monday, weeks after a former Indian temple chief priest was charged with misappropriating and pawning gold jewelry. Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Community, and Youth, told Parliament on Monday that the temples management committees would tighten oversight of the gold inventories in their temples, Today newspaper reported.