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Yang Yin files appeal challenging court decision to recognise wealthy widow’s new will

SINGAPORE — Former tour guide Yang Yin has filed an appeal against the Family Justice Courts’ recent decision to recognise the new will of wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun.

SINGAPORE — Former tour guide Yang Yin has filed an appeal against the Family Justice Courts’ recent decision to recognise the new will of wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun.

Yang was to be the executor and beneficiary of Mdm Chung’s estate in her previous will drawn up in 2010, but will receive nothing in her new will, which leaves most of her wealth to charity and was recognised this month by the court.

Yang was dissatisfied with the decision and his lawyer Daniel Zhu said the appeal was filed last evening (April 16). The appeal papers are now pending approval by the court and no hearing date has been fixed yet.

Mr Zhu said he would be unable to disclose the detailed basis of Yang’s appeal as Family Justice matters are confidential.

Yang, 41, has been in remand since Oct 31 last year for a separate criminal case against him. He faces over 300 charges for offences including the misappropriation of Mdm Chung’s money and the faking of receipts of his music and dance school.

He is also being sued by 88-year-old Mdm Chung’s niece, Mdm Hedy Mok, for alleged breach of duties under a legal document, called a Lasting Power of Attorney, that granted him control of the widow’s assets. The document was revoked last November after the Family Justice Courts determined that Mdm Chung, whose assets are worth an estimated S$40 million, had the mental capacity to do so.

Yang, a Chinese national, met the widow in 2008 in Beijing and moved into her bungalow in Singapore the following year.

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