The charity battling a fung shui master for Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's massive estate claims the master secretly held on to a so-called fung shui will that should have been burned in a funeral ritual, a court heard yesterday.
This was disclosed by lawyers for the fung shui master, Tony Chan Chun-chuen. They said the 'half-baked allegation' was the latest in a series of claims put forward by the Chinachem Charitable Foundation to discredit Mr Chan's claim to the estate. The foundation should not be allowed to call evidence in support of its allegation, they argued.
Both sides have pointed to rival wills, dated four years apart, to prove their claim on the estimated HK$100 billion estate. A trial to determine the rightful heir starts on May 11.
Wang, who headed the Chinachem property empire she ran with her late husband Teddy Wang Teh-huei, died two years ago aged 69.
At a pre-trial hearing Edward Chan SC, rejected the claim that Tony Chan had secretly held on to a will prepared as part of a Taoist practice and which should have been destroyed at Wang's funeral.
'They are alleging this is a fung shui will,' he told Mr Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon in the Court of First Instance. 'We say there is no such thing as a fung shui will, no matter what their expert says.'
The foundation should not be allowed to call an expert at the trial next month to support its allegation, Edward Chan told the court.
