Forging $14bn will is bad feng shui

Tony Chan, who claims to be the former lover of quirky billionaire Nina Wang, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after a Hong Kong court found him guilty of forging her will.

This photo taken in the early 1990s shows Asia's former richest woman, the late Nina Wang , with feng shui master Tony Chan. Source: AFP

A "CHARLATAN" who claimed to be the lover of a late Hong Kong billionaire has been jailed for 12 years after a court convicted him of forging her will in a bid to steal her fortune.

Bartender-turned-feng shui master Tony Chan had claimed to be the sole beneficiary of Nina Wang's $US13 billion ($14.2 billion) estate, which she inherited after the kidnapping and disappearance of her property mogul husband.

A court had ruled in 2010 - three years after Wang's death - that a will in Chan's possession was fake and after more than 20 hours of deliberation, a jury on Thursday found him guilty of forging the document.

Sentencing the 53-year-old, judge Andrew Macrae described his conduct as "shameless and wicked as well as borne of unparalleled greed".

"Forgery of a will is particularly nasty and insidious," said Judge Macrae, as the deceased "can't answer back".

"You are no doubt a clever, and no doubt beguiling charlatan," the judge said, describing his actions as "cruel and egregious".

Chan lowered his head into his hands when the sentence was read out before a courtroom packed with reporters, and smiled as he left the dock.

The sensational case has for years gripped the former British colony and generated blanket media coverage, with Chan often cast as a fraudster who duped Wang by promising to find her kidnapped husband and cure her of cancer.

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Forging $14bn will is bad feng shui