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4-point challenge filed to last Wang will

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The court case that will decide who inherits the estimated HK$100 billion fortune of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum moved a step closer to resolution yesterday when the Chinachem Charitable Foundation filed its reply to a rival claim over the estate.

The foundation and businessman Tony Chan Chun-chuen are locked in a face-off over rival wills, dated four years apart, which apparently leave the entire estate to either one.

Brian Gilchrist, solicitor for the foundation, said his client had submitted to the High Court its reply to Mr Chan's claims before a court-ordered deadline expired last night.

Mr Gilchrist said that since it was the foundation that first indicated it had a will, the law presumed, for the sake of argument, that it was in possession of the true will. It was therefore up to those purporting to have a more recent claim over the estate to prove their assertion.

He said the foundation was seeking proof from Mr Chan regarding four points:

That it was indeed Nina Wang who signed the will put forward by Mr Chan;

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