Nina Wang’s former feng shui adviser and lover Tony Chan lost a bid for her $12 billion estate, with Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal upholding a ruling that a will in his favor was forged and the property should go to charity.
Chan “has persisted in pursuing a thoroughly dishonest case,” Judge Anthony Rogers said today on behalf of the three- judge panel. “In so doing he has abused the process of the court,” Rogers said.
Chan, 51, who is free on bail after being arrested on suspicion of forgery, will appeal to Hong Kong’s highest court, adding a further chapter to the world’s biggest probate dispute. Chan claimed Wang left him her fortune after a 15-year intimate relationship that began when he was hired to help find her kidnapped husband Teddy, with whom she built the Chinachem Group into one of Hong Kong’s biggest closely held developers.
Chan “will file an appeal to the Court of Final Appeal as soon as possible,” said his spokesman Kenis Liu today.
15 February 2011
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