Hong Kong tycoon's will only for feng shui: reportHONG KONG (AFP) — A man who says late Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang was his lover has been accused of basing his claim to her fortune on a will which was only to be used as part of a feng shui ritual, a court heard.
Tony Chan, a feng shui master, told Wang to draw up a will to be burnt later to give her long life as part of the ancient Chinese practice, according to an expert report submitted by Wang's family to the city's high court.
Instead Chan kept the document and used it to claim her estate, the court was told.
"Mrs Wang merely executed the 2006 will, if she did, on instructions of (Chan), as part of feng shui procedures," the report said.
But Edward Chan, counsel for Tony Chan, said it was unfair to make an allegation of fraud against his client based on the report, written by another feng shui expert.
Wang died of cancer in 2007, aged 69, leaving an estate estimated to be worth up to 100 billion Hong Kong dollars (12.8 billion US) which has been the subject of a bitter legal dispute.
Chan claimed to have had a longstanding relationship with the eccentric billionaire, and says she made a will in 2006 naming him as her sole beneficiary. But Wang's family lays claim to an earlier 2002 will.
They had argued earlier that Wang did not have the mental capacity to execute the alleged will because of her health problems. Last month, the family's lawyers told the court they had evidence from a forensic handwriting expert that the signature on the alleged will was fake.
Judge Johnson Lam said he would not delve into the arguments over feng shui practices. "This is not a court of feng shui," he said.
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