Fung shui master tricked paranoid woman into ‘paying HK$10 million to cleanse evil spirits’
Geomancer promised to teach the woman supernatural powers in one day, lawsuit claims
A well-known fung shui master is accused of inducing a superstitious and paranoid woman to pay him more than HK$10 million over four years to perform rituals to cleanse “evil spirits”.
Fung Mei-yee, 49, the daughter of a successful businessman, has filed a lawsuit against Szeto Six-cheun – also known as Szeto Fat-ching, who appeared as a fung shui expert in a high-profile 2009 trial – to get her money back.
Fung, who according to the writ was educated to only Form Three level and suffered from congenital heart disease, even became a “disciple” of Szeto’s and became dependent upon his advice, according to the writ.
She was always superstitious and paranoid, the writ said.
She and her three siblings had helped out in their father’s paper business.
But after her older brother and sister became embroiled in a legal dispute in 2004 and her mother fell sick in 2009, she began to suspect her sister’s husband had cursed the family and she approached Szeto, the writ says.
In 2010, Fung claims Szeto saw mould in her home and suggested her family was cursed with “mould gong” – a kind of Asian black magic known as “tame head”. She then paid him more than HK$4.6 million on three separate occasions to purge the “evil force” – but the mould was not cleared.