The crimes went undetected for almost five years as Kandasamy Senapathi would return the jewellery before scheduled audits.
SINGAPORE: Over almost five years, the chief priest of Singapore's oldest Hindu temple misused ceremonial jewellery by pawning them repeatedly - to the tune of over S$2 million .
In 2016 alone, Kandasamy pawned 66 pieces of gold jewellery from the temple on 172 occasions. He redeemed all the jewellery and returned it back to the temple without anyone knowing. However, a member of the temple's finance team arranged for an audit to be conducted during Phase 2 of the circuit breaker between July 2020 and August 2020.
At the time, 17 pieces of jewellery were with two pawn shops. Kandasamy borrowed money from friends and went with the temple employee to redeem the jewellery. However, it"got out of hand". The lawyer said what Kandasamy did was wrong, but stressed that there was no loss to the temple as the jewellery was returned.
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