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Feb 3, 2010

Feng shui master arrested



The arrest of Tony Chan, 50, a former bartender, came after investigators searched his US$30 million (S$42 million) home in the city's upmarket Peak district on Wednesday afternoon. -- PHOTO: AFP

HONG KONG - POLICE said on Wednesday they arrested a Hong Kong feng shui master after the High Court ruled that his bid to claim eccentric tycoon Nina Wang's property empire was fraudulent. The arrest of Tony Chan, 50, a former bartender, came after investigators searched his US$30 million (S$42 million) home in the city's upmarket Peak district on Wednesday afternoon. 'The police today arrested a 50-year-old man surnamed Chan,' a police spokesman said. 'He is expected to be related to a forgery case.' The spokesman said police also seized files and a computer at Chan's home, adding that 'the case is still under investigation'.

Earlier on Wednesday, police said they would study the court ruling released on Tuesday, which described Chan as a liar who manufactured a forged will to inherit the late Wang's estimated US$13 billion fortune The high-profile case gripped the tycoon-obsessed city and generated blanket media coverage with Chan frequently cast as a villain who duped the eccentric Wang. The pigtailed tycoon, once Asia's richest woman, died of cancer in April 2007 at the age of 69, triggering a bitter feud between Chan and her charity, both claiming they were entitled to her fortune. The Standard newspaper reported on Wednesday that the city's tax collector is expected to bill Chan HK$300 million (S$54.9 million) for the undeclared US$2 billion Ms Wang allegedly paid him for feng shui advice. -- AFP