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Indian priest jailed for pawning temple's jewellery in Singapore
short by Bhawana Chaudhary / on Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
A 39-year-old former Indian chief priest of Singapore's oldest Hindu temple Sri Mariamman Temple was sentenced to six years in jail for pawning over SGD 2 million (over ₹12 crore) of ceremonial jewellery repeatedly. Kandasamy Senapathi got SGD 2,328,760 (over ₹14 crore) from pawn shops between 2016-20, of which he remitted about SGD 141,000 (over ₹86 lakh) to India.
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