By Selina Lum & Carolyn Quek

BUDDHIST monk Ming Yi yesterday said he thought it was all right for Ren Ci Hospital to lend money to its affiliate Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre, so that it could, in turn, lend money to his former personal aide Raymond Yeung.

After all, said the former chief of the medical charity, Yeung was - in substance - a Ren Ci employee and was in charge of managing Mandala, a shop selling Buddhist artefacts.

Even if the money had gone straight from Ren Ci to Yeung, it would have been fine by him too, said Ming Yi.

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