Gladly there is more democracy in Hongkong than Singhangpore Yew's Opium :)))
If she was in Singhangpore, got hung already :)))
Amen
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Asia's richest woman cleared in fraud case Fri Dec 2, 7:52 PM ET
HONG KONG (AFP) - Asia's richest woman, flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang, has won an eight-year battle to clear her name of charges she forged her late husband's will to get her hands on his fortune, reports said.
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Prosecutors on Friday dropped all criminal charges against her for allegedly forging the will of her husband, industrialist Teddy Wang, to
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inherit his Chinachem empire, now worth 3.5 billion US dollars.
Teddy Wang was declared dead nine years after he was kidnapped in 1990.
In September, Nina Wang won a civil case brought by her 94-year-old father-in-law who claimed he was the rightful heir.
In that case, the appeals court unanimously ruled against a lower court's judgement that she had obtained the money by forging the will of her husband shortly before he was kidnapped and vanished without trace.
They ruled there was no real cause for suspicion that the document naming her as the sole beneficiary was a fake, as her father-in-law Wang Din-shin had claimed throughout the legal saga.
"The evidence upon which the prosecution was to rely was to a large extent the same evidence which was relied on in the probate action," prosecutor Kevin Zervos told Eastern Court on Friday, the South China Morning Post reported.
The probate case turned on whether the 1990 will naming her as the sole
beneficiary was a forgery.
Two other wills had been presented in court. The earliest, dated 1960, split the estate equally between Teddy's father and his wife.
A 1968 version, whose authenticity was challenged and which was allegedly made after Teddy discovered his wife was having an affair, gave the entire estate to his father Wang Din-shin.
Zervos said the authorities had reviewed evidence relating to the 1990 will.
"In light of that exercise and on advice from counsel from both within and outside the Department of Justice, it has been decided the most
appropriate course is to withdraw the charges," the Post quoted Zervos as saying.
Through her lawyer Jonathan Midgley, Nina Wang said she was pleased with the outcome.
"Mrs Wang is pleased that the civil and criminal proceedings are now over, and that she has been entirely exonerated," the Post quoted Midgley as saying.
In January this year, Wang was formally charged with forgery but released on bail of 55 million Hong Kong (7.1 million US) dollars, the largest bail in the city's history.
Wang, a charismatic businesswoman known for her colourful wardrobe and unusual haircuts, was pictured in Hong Kong newspapers emerging smiling
from court dressed in bright red but without the trademark pigtails which she used to be famous for.
Teddy Wang was kidnapped in 1990 but although the family paid 60 million dollars in ransom, he was never seen again. His body was never found, and he was legally declared dead nine years later.
Nina Wang had long insisted her husband was still alive and would someday return to her.
Forbes magazine this year estimated Nina Wang's personal fortune at 3.1
billion US dollars, 188th in their ranking of the world's richest people.
After taking control of Chinachem she transformed it into a 3.5 billion
US dollar empire that owns more than 200 office towers and 400 companies around the world.
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